Foreign Minister Angelino
Alfano on Thursday placed a bouquet of red flowers on the tomb
of late former Socialist Party (PSI) leader and ex-premier
Bettino Craxi at his home in exile at Hammamet in Tunisia, after
a silent prayer with widow Anna and children Stefania and Bobo.
Alfano then made the sign of the cross and signed the visitors'
book.
Craxi, whose position in Italian political history has been
reassessed in recent years, was Socialist premier of Italy from
1983 to 1987 and at the centre of the 1992-1994 Mani Pulite
(Clean Hands) anti-corruption investigations carried out by
Milan judges.
He fled to Tunis to avoid prison in 1994 and died in
self-imposed exile at his Tunisian villa in January 2000.
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