Severino Santiapichi (26 May 1926 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian magistrate and writer. Born in Scicli, Ragusa, he was the president of the

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for about 20 years, notably presiding over the Aldo Moro trial in 1978 and the

Pope John Paul II assassination attempt On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately a ...

trial in 1981.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . He was also, for several years, vice president of the Supreme Court in Somalia. After the retirement, he wrote several non-fiction novels and was professor at the Kore University of

Enna Enna ( or ; grc, Ἔννα; la, Henna, less frequently ), known from the Middle Ages until 1926 as Castrogiovanni ( scn, Castrugiuvanni ), is a city and located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering ...

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