Berlusconi says would like to 'strangle' writers

"The Octopus" -- in Italian, "La Piovra" -- was a mafia-themed television series aired on RAI public television from 1984 through 2001.
He went on to dismiss as unfounded and defamatory news reports suggesting he might have been implicated in bomb attacks carried out by the Italian underworld in 1992 and 1993, several Italian news media reported.
Berlusconi was speaking in Sardinia as a prosecutor in Florence denied a newspaper claim that the prime minister has been put under investigation for suspected association with the mafia in relation to the killings.
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