(see related)Italy's
president can have no issue with parts of her film that deal
with his alleged pressure on behalf of a former minister while
he was under investigation for Mob ties, director Sabina
Guzzanti said Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival.
President Giorgio Napolitano allegedly intervened on behalf
of former interior minister and current Senator Nicola Mancino,
who stands accused of perjury in an ongoing State-Mafia trial in
Sicily.
Mancino has been charged along with 11 other people in
relation to alleged negotiations between the State and Cosa
Nostra to stop a series of bomb attacks in the early 1990s that
claimed the lives of anti-Mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and
Paolo Borsellino in 1992, among others.
"Napolitano cannot take issue. Every word about him in my
film has been checked over 1,678 times," Guzzanti told reporters
after the screening of her movie satire La Trattattiva (The
Negotiation).
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