Russia's relations with Italy during the two Conte governments come back to the fore and rekindle the political clash between Italia Viva and Cinquestelle.
At the center of the controversy are the new reconstructions published in the newspapers that report in the debate, on the one hand, the Russian mission in the Peninsula during the first months of the pandemic emergency, and on the other the scandal of Russiagate, with a "secret dinner" would be held in Rome in 2019 between the then head of Italian services Gennaro Vecchione and Donald Trump's US Secretary of Justice, Bill Barr.
This last story gives rise to the lunge of the Renzians, who with the Copasir secretary Ernesto Magorno ask for the hearing of Vecchione and Giuseppe Conte.
The lawyer, for his part, returns to reject all charges, while the five-star members of the Committee want to hear Matteo Renzi.
In August 2019 Barr flies to Rome to meet Vecchione.
The objective of the mission - reports Repubblica - is to understand if the Russiagate, that is the scandal on the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections to bring Trump to the White House, was not actually packaged in Italy, by the services led by the then Prime Minister Renzi together. to hostile FBI agents, to harm the tycoon and make Hillary Clinton win.
The meeting between Barr and the head of the Services takes place in the headquarters of the Dis, but then - according to the newspaper - he resumes dinner in a Roman restaurant.
Dinner of which Conte, heard in October by Copasir, would not have reported.
The dialogue with Barr, the then prime minister told the commissioners, took place "in full legality and correctness" and it was found that "our intelligence is not foreign".
A second meeting between Barr and the head of the Dis takes place at the end of September.
In the middle, Trump's famous tweet with the endorsement for "Giuseppi Conte", struggling with the post-Papeete crisis of the yellow-green government.
A link, the one between Barr's request for information and the formation of his second government, which Conte dismisses as "a bad faith inference, given that Barr's request dates back to June 2019 and the government crisis on 8 August 2019" .
Conte reiterates that he has never met the US Secretary of Justice.
As for the dinner, "I was not aware of it", but if she has been to a well-known restaurant "I guess she was motivated by institutional courtesy".
In the perspective of Italia Viva there is still enough to return to the attack of the M5s leader.
The president of Iv Ettore Rosato accuses Conte of "using the secret services for personal and political ends" and "embarrassing subordination to Putin's Russia".
For the secretary of Copasir Magorno a new hearing by Conte and Vecchione is needed.
"Obama and I who are organizing an electoral scam against Trump? Pure madness. That in 2019 someone in Rome may have given credit to this idea seems very serious to me", underlines Renzi, who asks the intelligence to "clarify".
On the opposite front, the three M5s members of Copasir underline Conte's transparency and ask to "audit all the parties called into question as soon as possible, starting with Senator Renzi".
From summer 2019 we move to spring 2020. The government is now the yellow and red one of the Conte bis.
The Corriere della Sera reports the emails sent at the end of March by the Moscow embassy to Italy to plan the arrival of the flights and the 130 men destined for the anticovid mission.
"It is planned to send special means for the disinfestation of structures and inhabited centers in the infected localities", it reads.
A formula that would confirm the desire to reclaim public structures.
From the emails and documents collected by Copasir, it also emerges that the "humanitarian mission" of the Russians would have been paid for by Italy.
From jet fuel to the cost of food and accommodation for 130 people: an account of over 3 million euros.
