Former Sicily health councillor
Lucia Borsellino was on Tuesday named to an anti-corruption post
at Italy's regional healthcare agency Agenas.
The job will last two years and Borsellino will be based in
Rome.
News of the appointment came a day after the interior
ministry assigned a police escort to Borsellino, daughter of
slain anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino.
She will have an armour-plated car and will be escorted by
two police officers.
Borsellino, who was said to be unhappy with the measure
because she prefers to keep a low profile, was recently in the
news because of an alleged wiretap published by l'Espresso
magazine in which a graft-probed plastic surgeon, Matteo Tutino,
allegedly says "she should be blown up like her father".
Several Sicilian prosecutors' offices have denied the
existence of the allegedly classified wiretap, as has the
alleged recipient of the remark, Sicily Governor Rosario
Crocetta, who faced down a firestorm of criticism for allegedly
remaining silent.
Paolo Borsellino was killed along with his police escorts
by a Cosa Nostra car bomb in July 1992, three months after his
friend and fellow crusading anti-Mob prosecutor Giovanni Falcone
met the same fate.
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