Sicilian bosses have been
plotting to kill Interior Minister Angelino Alfano because he
has beefed up the tough high-security prison regime for mafiosi
called 41 bis, according to wiretaps made in an operation
against the Corleone clan.
Alfano should be eliminated "if there is an agreement", two
Corleone members are heard to say.
"They rose to power thanks to us. Angelino Alfano is a pig.
Who brought him here with the votes of the friends? He wound up
there with (three-time former premier Silvio) Berlusconi and now
they've forgotten everything".
Alfano "should end up like Kennedy", they are heard saying.
Italian police on Friday arrested Corleone Mafia boss
Rosario Lo Bue and others in a major operation against the clan.
Lo Bue was arrested in 2008 but then freed, police said.
Police said the top echelons of the Corleone clan had been
dismantled.
Separately, police arrested eight people suspected of
belonging to Catania's Santapaola Ercolano Mafia clan.
The eight were arrested on suspicion of racketeering,
aggravated robbery, kidnapping and extortion, police said.
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