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In April 1993 Gianni De Michelis left the public prosecutor’s office in Venice, after his first interrogation on several corruption charges. Once a popular foreign minister, De Michelis now faced a hostile crowd in St Mark’s Square. Finding himself trapped by the geography of Venice, he was lucky to get hold of a water-taxi, escaping from an angry group of demonstrators who followed him along Calle della Canonica shouting: ‘thief, buffoon, bandit, criminal, shame, shame’.1
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Little, W., Posada-Carbó, E. (1996). Introduction. In: Little, W., Posada-Carbó, E. (eds) Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America. Institute of Latin American Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24588-8_1
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