Carminati 'happy to be 1970s Fascist'

(ANSA) - Rome, March 29 - Massimo Carminati, one of the two alleged ring-leaders in the sprawling Capital Mafia case, told a court Wednesday that he was proud to be a neofacist and said the case is only a big deal because he is implicated in it. "I am an old Fascist of the 1970s and I'm very happy about what I am," Carminati, a former member of the NAR neofascist terrorist group and of the Banda della Magliana crime gang, told a hearing held at Rome's Rebibbia jail. "If I were not involved, this trial would be ridiculous. But as Carminati is involved, it is something serious".