Giovanni Falcone

Roberto Scarpinato, Italy's national anti-mafia prosecutor, is back at the centre of Italian political debate. Brothers of Italy's Giovanni Donzelli attacked Giuseppe Conte over a photo of Scarpinato with judges Falcone and Borsellino, saying "and Judas was beside Jesus". Meanwhile, parliament's anti-mafia commission faces questions over testimony concerning mafia infiltration in public contracts involving Natoli and Scarpinato.

Brothers of Italy MP Giovanni Donzelli attacked Giuseppe Conte over a photo showing Carmelo Scarpinato, Italy's newly appointed attorney general, alongside judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Quoting the Gospel, Donzelli said 'And Judas was next to Jesus', implying Conte's criticism of the photo was an attack on the anti-mafia judiciary and fuelling a fresh political fight.