Editing Giovanni Falcone (section)

== Transfer to Rome ==

Exhausted and frustrated by the antagonism in Palermo, Falcone accepted a post in the Ministry of Justice in Rome offered to him by [[Claudio Martelli]], the new minister of Justice in a new government of [[Giulio Andreotti]] in March 1991. The transfer was initially seen as a capitulation by Falcone, but he himself thought of it as a tactical move to better fight the Mafia. His first action was to prepare a decree to repair the disastrous sentence by Supreme Court judge [[Corrado Carnevale]], known as the “sentence-killer”, that allowed most of the remaining defendants of the Maxi Trial to walk free from prison. The Martelli decree led to the immediate re-arrest of the Mafia bosses.<ref name="stille332">Stille, ''Excellent Cadavers'', pp. 332–36</ref>

While in Rome he started to restructure the Italian prosecution system, creating district offices to fight the Mafia and a national office to fight organised crime.<ref name=stille332/> Next was his move to prevent Carnevale from reviewing the sentence of the Maxi Trial. In a blow to the Mafia, the Maxi Trial convictions were upheld by the Supreme Court in January 1992.<ref name="schneiders"/> To the surprise of many, Falcone's move to Rome was very successful. He achieved a genuine revolution in the judiciary. The Mafia began to realize that Falcone was even more dangerous in Rome than he had been in Palermo.<ref name="stille348">Stille, ''Excellent Cadavers'', pp. 348–49</ref>