(ANSA) - Naples, September 26 - A Tunisian sentenced to eight years for Islamist terrorism had tried unsuccessfully to buy five kalashnikov rifles from a former member of the notorious Casalesi clan of the Campanian Camorra mafia, judges said in their June sentence which was published Wednesday.

Mohamed Kamel Edine Khemiri didn't get the arms because, as mafioso Salvatore Orabona told judges, "I didn't want to give the weapons to those people".

Orabona has since become a state's witness and informant on the Caslesis, the ruthless clan who have forced Gomorrah writer Roberto Savinao into a police protection programme.

