The fight against the mafia is
not over and is increasingly international, Senate Speaker
Pietro Grasso told the Estates General on the fight against the
mafia Friday.
Grasso, former national anti-mafia prosecutor, said "the
battle for legality is not at all over not only at a national
level but also on a world one".
He said this had led Italy to be the only country in the
world to "unify the fight against the mafia and terrorism in a
single national prosecutor's office".
The existence of the mafia was proven by a landmark judicial
sentence 30 years ago, Grasso told the Estates General.
"Thirty years have gone by since the Italian magistrature was
able to demonstrate, once and for all, the existence of the
mafia," he said, recalling the December 16 1987 sentence of the
first maxi-trial against Cosa Nostra in Palermo.
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