Toti: not 'clockwork justice' says prosecutor

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 7 - The prosecutor who helped place Liguria Governor Giovanni Toti under house arrest in a graft probe Tuesday denied it was a case of "clockwork justice" aimed at denting the centre right's prospects in the upcoming European elections.
    "There can be no talk of a clockwork probe seeing as how our request (for house arrest) dates back five months, and precisely to December 27," Nicola Piacente told reporters outside the palace of justice in Genoa.
    "The ordinance only arrived yesterday morning and was therefore executed this morning," he said. (ANSA).