Clash Of Matteo-Bonafede, Conte defends the minister

There is a storm over the Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede. The whole center-right is asking for his resignation, while the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, takes his defense, making it known that he has "full confidence" in him. Reason: the remote confrontation with an anti-mafia icon, the director of the CSM Nino Di Matteo, who accuses him of first offering him the guidance of prisons in 2018 and then having backtracked, after some interceptions had revealed the concerns bosses for a similar perspective. "I firmly reject political attacks or baseless conjectures with respect to choices made by Bonafede in full autonomy", reacts the political leader of the M5S Vito Crimi, reaffirming his "confidence" and that of the movement towards the minister. Along the same lines, Luigi Di Maio, for whom "Bonafede has always shown that he has a straight back" remembering that "we entered Parliament with the clear intent to stop the underworld and eradicate the mafias".
    The other majority parties are holding back on the opposition's request ("it would be very serious if a minister were to resign on suspicion of a magistrate", warns Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party Andrea Orlando), but ask the Guardasigilli to clarify.
    Bonafede, who yesterday said he was "stunned" by such a reconstruction, with a Facebook post reaffirms his truth and above all defines the idea that he would let himself be influenced by the words pronounced in prison by some boss "infamous and absurd" mafia ". Just as he claims to have "always acted openly in the fight against the mafias", as evidenced by the reforms supported and the 686 hard prison measures he signed. After the resignation of the head of the Department of Prison Administration Francesco Basentini, linked to the controversy over the release of the bosses (376 inmates sent to house for health reasons) and his replacement in the running with the Reggio Calabria Pg Dino Patralia , a new earthquake returns to shake prison policy. The response between the former Palermo prosecutor and the minister is staged at "Non è arena". Di Matteo says that two years ago Bonafede proposed to him to direct the Dap or alternatively criminal affairs. But when 48 hours later he informed him that he accepted the direction of the prisons, the Guardasigilli had second thoughts. And these happened after the reaction of some "very important mafia bosses" intercepted in prison: "if they name Di Matteo, for us it is the end, this throws the key".
    Bonafede's reply arrives with a heated live call: that interception "had already been published". And "the fact that I would have retracted, by virtue of I do not know what fear arose, is neither in heaven nor on earth," says the minister, also explaining that the position of head of criminal affairs that Di Matteo later refused, "does not it was a minor role ", it was" the same one that Giovanni Falcone played ".
    The clash effect is immediate. Giorgia Meloni already at the end of the broadcast invokes her resignation because "shadows are added to disasters". "Bonafede should come immediately to Parliament," says Mariastella Gelmini, Fi group leader in the Chamber, who sees no alternative: "either Di Matteo leaves the judiciary or Bonafede leaves the Ministry of Justice".
    Even the Lega urges the step back: "Bonafede can no longer be the Minister of Justice", thunder the parliamentarians of Salvini's party in the Anti-Mafia Commission. Via Bonafede, but not for Di Matteo, is instead the position of the Radical Party.
    Clarifications to the Guardasigilli are also asked by the majority. "We are sure that the minister will come as soon as possible to report in commission and in parliament on the government's commitment against the mafias", say the justice responsible of the Democratic Party, Walter Verini, and the group leader in the anti-mafia commission Franco Mirabelli, who they judge anyway " irresponsible "to use a theme such as the fight against mafias" to justify yet another request for resignation ". Invoke "the truth" Matteo Renzi, "before speaking of motions of no confidence". "I want to see if it is a settlement of accounts" insists the leader of Italia Viva, according to which the affair "is likely to be the most serious judicial scandal in recent years".