Camorra hitman Giuseppe Setola, who has admitted to murdering 46 people, declared Wednesday he will no longer be a State's witness and that what he told prosecutors were lies.
"I don't want to be examined, all I want to say is that I told a pack of lies to get out of jail sooner" he said during a trial-hearing for the murder of enterpreneur Domenico Noviello. Setola worked for the notorious Casalesi clan of the Camorra, the vicious Neapolitan version of the Sicilian Mafia. His about-face comes after two Casalesi bosses were acquitted Monday of threatening the lives of crusading anti-mafia investigative journalists Roberto Saviano and Rosaria Capacchione.
Both journalists live with round-the-clock government-assigned bodyguards due to the death threats they have received.
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