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===Accusations by Danilo Dolci===

The Antimafia activist [[Danilo Dolci]] also accused Mattarella of collusion with the Mafia. Dolci had been gathering evidence on the links between the Mafia and politicians for the [[Antimafia Commission]], which was established in 1963. At a press conference in September 1965, he presented dozen of testimonies of people who had supposedly seen Mattarella meeting with leading mafiosi.<ref name=bess194>Bess, Michael (1993), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5-eRP7NYMOgC&pg=PA194 Realism, utopia, and the mushroom cloud: four activist intellectuals and their strategies for peace, 1945–1989]'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, {{ISBN|0-226-04421-1}}, pp. 194–97</ref><ref name=ghersi>{{it icon}} [http://danilo1970.interfree.it/ghersi.html Danilo Dolci e la dimensione utopica] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312043619/http://danilo1970.interfree.it/ghersi.html |date=12 March 2012 }}, di Livio Ghersi (accessed 2 March 2011)</ref> Mattarella sued Dolci for libel. Mattarella’s lawsuit for libel allowed Dolci “ampia facoltà di prova”, meaning that the defendant would have been declared innocent if he had been able to show that he had offended the plaintiff on the basis of true evidence. In the ensuing two-year trial, dozens of witnesses were heard and many documents were considered. Dolci made an application for an amnesty, but was sentenced to two years imprisonment for libel. He never served the verdict, because of a general pardon.