(ANSA) - Rome, April 20 - Former premier Silvio Berlusconi's
centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party on Friday said it was ready
to sue for slander prosecutor Nino Di Matteo for saying former
Berlusconi aide Marcello Dell'Utri was the go-between for the
Mafia's requests to the 1994 Berlusconi government. "Forza
Italia rejects with indignation all attempts to link, against
logic and evidence, the name of Berlusconi to the affair of the
State-Mafia talks," whose trial ended Friday with the conviction
of Dell'Utri and others. It accused Di Matteo of being an
"assiduous participant" at events staged by the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and said his charges
against the ex-premier were "of an unprecedented gravity"".
FI ready to sue Di Matteo (3)
State-Mafia claim 'of unprecedented gravity'