(ANSA) Palermo, April 17 - Mafia supergrass Carmelo
D'Amico pledged Friday to "tell everything" about politicians
allegedly linked to Cosa Nostra and claimed Interior Minister
Angelino Alfano and former Senate Speaker Renato Schifani were
elected in deals with the Mob.
"Before now I was too frightened to tell everything,"
D'Amico told the Palermo Assize court, "I am afraid for myself
and my family, but if you protect me, I will tell everything".
"The names that I will give today are of people capable of
anything, they can go inside prisons and kill simulating
suicides and natural deaths," the Messina mobster turned State's
evidence said at a trial of politicians who allegedly arranged
negotiations between the State and the Mafia in the 1990s.
"They direct politics and they will try to get rid of me as
they wanted to do with you, Dr di Matteo," D'Amico told
Prosecutor Nino Di Matteo.
D'Amico, who has admitted carrying out some 30 murders for
Cosa Nostra, has said he turned state's evidence in response to
an appeal by Pope Francis to mafiosi to abandon crime.
"Among the politicians who have made agreements with Cosa
Nostra there are also Angelino Alfano and Renato Schifani, who
were elected with votes of the Mafia," he said.
"Alfano was sponsored by the Mafia but then turned his back
on them. Forza Italia was born because the secret services,
(Totò) Riina and (Bernardo) Provenzano wanted it to govern
Italy, (Silvio) Berlusconi was just a pawn of (Marcello)
Dell'Utri, Riina, Provenzano and the (secret) Services".
D'Amico also claimed late statesman Giulio Andreotti "and
the secret services" were "behind" Mafia bombs that killed
anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in
1992.
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