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Article: Italian party had 'serene' relations with Cosa Nostra

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January 17, 2003
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A MAFIA supergrass drew a devastating picture of complicity between Italy's political establishment and Sicily's gangsters when he gave evidence yesterday against the former prime minister Giulio Andreotti.

Antonino Giuffre, number two in the Sicilian Mafia until his arrest in April last year, told a court inside a prison in Milan: "Relations between the Christian Democrats [CD] and Cosa Nostra were serene for at least a decade, there was absolute peace."

He was giving evidence against Andreotti, 83, the Christian Democrat politician who was seven times prime minister and served in 30 governments, and who is fighting an appeal by prosecutors against his acquittal in 1999 on charges of ...

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