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| | Guardian | Vito Ciancimino |
 | | Ciancimino was councillor for public works (1959-1964), when Salvo Lima, the representative of Giulio Andreotti, was mayor of Palermo; he oversaw the destruction of the city's green belt, and villas that gave it architectural grace, to make way for characterless apartment blocks. |
 | | In 1992, following the mafia murders of Lima, the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, and his colleague Paolo Borsellino, Ciancimino offered to infiltrate the mafia and negotiate a solution to terrorist aggression against the Italian state. |
 | | He may even have contributed to the 1993 arrest of the boss of bosses, Salvatore "Toto" Riina, whose removal cleared the ground for Bernardo Provenzano, a wilier and less bloodthirsty boss from Corleone, whose name has been linked to that of Ciancimino. |
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