The budget of the central
protection service handling prosecution witnesses and criminals
who have turned state's evidence has been cut by around 25
million euros in 2015, MP Davide Mattiello of the Democratic
Party (PD) and a member of the House justice and antimafia
committees said Thursday.
"This is money that is needed to protect people who have
chosen to entrust themselves to the state to see justice
served," Mattiello said.
"I do not understand and am extremely concerned about this
development: the quality of the protection service is behind the
sustainability of such choices, which are always traumatic for
those who make them," he continued, putting the blame directly
on Interior Minister Angelino Alfano who under the budget law is
responsible for allocating funds within his own ministry.
"Meanwhile the most recent collaborations, such as that of
Vito Galatolo in the context of (Sicilian mafia) Cosa Nostra,
who revealed the plans to murder (Palermo prosecutor Nino) Di
Matteo, but also of Gianni Cretarola who has told us about a
part of the 'ndrangheta in Rome, which goes hand in hand with
the Mafia Capitale system, should leave no room for doubt about
the importance of this instrument," Mattiello said.
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