Berlusconi ‘had pact with Mafia’

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s political party, Forza Italia, was created after secret talks between the Mafia and the state, a Godfather’s son has claimed. Police informer Massimo Ciancimino, whose father was mayor of Palermo on the Mafia’s island stronghold of Sicily, made the sensational claim as he gave evidence in a...