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Italian Ex PM Confesses to Coke

Author: Jonty Skrufff
Saturday, November 29, 2003
Hugely respected Italian politician Emilio Colombo, 83, admitted to being a 'regular cocaine user this week', after a scandal involving prostitutes and drugs erupted in Rome.

The former Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European parliament told police he'd not used the drug for long 'not more than a year and a half' though his confession caused immediate embarrassment to Italy's current Government who are soon to introduce ferocious penalties for any drug use. Just last week, neo-fascist Deputy PM Gianfranco Fini branded drug users subversives who should be locked up without mercy.

"Taking drugs is not an innocuous exercise of freedoms that can't be curbed," Fini stormed.

"But a rejection of the most elementary duties of the individual towards the various communities in which he or she actually lives."
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