Fassino says Berlusconi wiretap sentence 'restores truth'
Ruling shows Italian politics 'polluted by illegal practices'
07 March, 15:50
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(ANSA) - Turin, March 7 - Turin Mayor Piero Fassino said
Thursday that the truth had been restored with the decision to
hand prison sentences to ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi and his
brother Paolo over the publication of an illegally obtained
wiretap of one of his telephone conversation.
The wiretap concerned a conversation Piero Fassino, then
head of the former centre-left Democratic Left (DS) party, and
Giovanni Consorte, the former chairman of Unipol, an association
of insurers historically linked to the DS, the heir to Italy's
Communist Party.At the time Unipol came close to taking over one of Italy's leading banks, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), and Fassino was recorded as saying "we have a bank!".
"This is a sentence that re-establishes the truth and justice and it confirms that a campaign of political vilification and delegitimization was deliberately created for years around an ironic expression," Fassino said. "It also confirms how much Italian politics has been deeply polluted by illegal practices in recent years".
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