Rocco Chinnici

Rocco Chinnici (19 January 1925 - Palermo, 29 July 1983) was a noted Italian anti-Mafia magistrate.

Chinnici graduated in with a law diploma and started working as a magistrate in 1952 in Trapani. He then became Chief Prosecutor at the Palace of Justice in Palermo following the murder of his predecessor, Cesare Terranova, by the Mafia. The famous anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino both worked under him.

On July 29, 1983 a car bomb explosion killed Chinnici, two of his bodyguards and the concierge of his apartment block. The bomb was triggered by the notorious Mafia assassin Pino Greco and Pino acted under orders from his uncle Michele Greco; Michele was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering Chinnici's assassination.

Chinnici was replaced as Chief Prosecutor by Antonino Caponnetto.