Cutting police ability to use Trojan
horses in their fight against crimes against the civil service
would undermine the State's battle against the Mafia, national
anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the Senate justice
committee Tuesday.
Melillo said restricting such use was part of Justice Minister
Carlo Nordio's plans to rein in the salacious publication of
wiretaps of innocent people, a charge Nordio has denied.
"Reducing the possibility of using trojans in crimes against the
public administration would also undermine investigations
against organised crime," Melillo told the Upper House panel,
which heard him as part of its fact-finding investigation into
wiretapping.
Many mafia investigations "arise from those on public
administration", Melillo explained, repeating a claim that
lesser crimes that lead to Mob probes would be hurt by Nordio's
plans.
And referring to the cases of municipalities dissolved for mafia
reasons, the anti-mafia prosecutor added: "we should also think
in terms of the resilience of democracy".
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