(ANSA) - LAMPEDUSA, 04 OCT - "It was an unhappy sentence from anger and from the terrible moment our country is experiencing but I have always fought against all mafias, starting with the Nigerian one".
Thus the former senator of the League and former deputy mayor of Lampedusa Angelo Maraventano comments to ANSA the controversy following his shock speech in Catania, from the stage of the demonstration in support of Matteo Salvini, on the fact that "the 'sensitive and courageous' mafia no longer exists. of a time".
"I just wanted to shake people's consciences - he adds - on the fact that we are witnessing an 'invasion' by immigrants, with an accomplice government. But all this certainly does not mean that I am in favor of the mafia, my story speaks to me" .
Maraventano's statements were severely stigmatized by the former president of the Senate Pietro Grasso, by Giovanni Falcone's sister and president of the Foundation headed by the magistrate Mariam and by the mayor of Lampedusa TotòMartello, who invite the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini to distance themselves.
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