Vatican judge under investigation for allegedly favoring the mob

ROME – A major fire in Rome on Wednesday caused the closure of a street named for Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, anti-mafia prosecutors in Sicily whose separate assassinations in 1992, one right after the other, made them two of Italy’s most revered martyrs to the cause of fighting organized crime.

As it turns out, Wednesday’s blaze wasn’t the only fire burning that day around the memory of Falcone and Borsellino.

The same day, prosecutors in the Sicilian community...