A Tunisian sentenced to
eight years for Islamist terrorism had tried unsuccessfully to
buy five kalashnikov rifles from a former member of the
notorious Casalesi clan of the Campanian Camorra mafia, judges
said in their June sentence which was published Wednesday.
Mohamed Kamel Edine Khemiri didn't get the arms because, as
mafioso Salvatore Orabona told judges, "I didn't want to give
the weapons to those people".
Orabona has since become a state's witness and informant on
the Caslesis, the ruthless clan who have forced Gomorrah writer
Roberto Savinao into a police protection programme.
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