Sicily Governor Rosario Crocetta
told the Sicilian regional assembly (ARS) he would not quit over
a controversial wiretap whose existence has been disputed.
"I refuse to offer my flesh to hungry
executioners...everyone knows that wiretap does not exist," he
said.
Crocetta suspended himself after a magazine published the
tap in which he allegedly said nothing when his doctor Matteo
Turino, probed in a hospital graft case, said Sicily health
councillor Lucia Borsellino should meet the same fate as her
Cosa-Nostra slain father, anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo
Borsellino.
Crocetta said he was the victim of a smear campaign after
prosecutor's offices said they had no such wiretap on their
files but the magazine, l'Espresso, stood by its story, saying
the tap had been classified.
The governor, a member of Premier Matteo Renzi's Democratic
Party (PD), is suing l'Espresso for 10 million euros.
Renzi is meeting the PD's head in Sicily, Fausto Raciti,
about the case on Thursday.
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