Mafia fight 'alternating' - Grasso

(ANSA) - Florence, November 27 - Governments have only tackled the mafia "in alternating phases," Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso told the National AntiMafia Authority Friday. "Many laws only came after a wave of massacres and arrest, in the wake of grievous loss and scandals," said Grasso, a former national anti-mafia prosecutor. "Tension then eased and everything returned towards normalisation", he said at Bagno a Ripoli near Florence.