Governments have only
tackled the mafia "in alternating phases," Senate Speaker Pietro
Grasso told the National AntiMafia Authority Friday.
"Many laws only came after a wave of massacres and arrest,
in the wake of grievous loss and scandals," said Grasso, a
former national anti-mafia prosecutor.
"Tension then eased and everything returned towards
normalisation", he said at Bagno a Ripoli near Florence.
Grasso also called on national anti-mafia prosecutors to
be less tempted to try to claim the media glare.
"In order to overcome decay, to free politics and
administrations from graft, we need a credible and transparent
leadership class, but also an anti-mafia (apparatus) that can
look inside and abandon sensationalism, protagonism, the
pretended primacy of each actor, as well as a rush to get public
and private funding".
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