Silvio Berlusconi to defeat Italian mafia once and for all by 2013
December 25, 2009 by The Boss · Leave a Comment
ROME — Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in an interview on Thursday on Italian national radio that he wanted to defeat the mafia once and for all by 2013.
“The mafia is a pathological phenomenon that we want to defeat once and for all by the end of this term in office” he said from his villa near Milan where he is recovering after being attacked on December 13.
“Despite the accusations made against the prime minister, no government in the history of the republic has acted with as much determination and efficiency in the fight against criminal organisations”, he said, adding “we have arrested an average of eight people per day”.
Ex-Mafia mobster Gaspare Spatuzza has claimed that Berlusconi and former aide Marcello Dell’Utri were political interlocutors for the mafia in the nineties.
The accusations, vehemently denied by Berlusconi, were partly refuted by a former top Mafia don earlier this month
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