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Article: An unlikely hero: the steamroller judge. (Antonio Di Pietro)(Italian politics)
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- April 1, 1993
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Italians had been looking for a hero for a while. They have found him in a man who, at first glance, doesn,t seem to physically fit the role. Antonio Di Pietro, a judge, is stocky, stout, and his facial features don,t hide his humble origins as the son of a peasant from southern Italy's poorest region. And yet he is the man who, without ever having taken part in politics or ever having declared any tendency toward a particular party, has radically changed this country.
One year ago, on February 17, 1992, this obstinate judge arrested the first of a long series of politicians and industrialists, all under the accusation of having requested or paid illegal kickbacks ...