New suspects in 1992 Italian bombing

Italian police Thursday carried out warrants in central Sicily for three people suspected of involvement in a 1992 bombing that killed an anti-mafia judge. The suspects are Salvatore Madonia, the alleged mastermind of the attack, Victor Tutino and Salvatore Vitale. Madonia and Tutino are in prison for prior convictions and Vitale is in a state hospital under house arrest, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. Prosecutors were acting on new information from informant and fellow suspect Gaspare Spatuzza, the report said. Judge Paolo Borsellino was killed July 19, 1992, when a car bomb went off in front of a building he was entering in via D'Amelio. The informant said Madonia organized the attack, while Spatuzza and Tutino stole the car used in the bombing and provided the detonator for the explosive. Borsellino was killed three months after Italy's leading anti-Mafia magistrate, Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were killed by a remote-controlled bomb planted under a motorway outside Palermo.