"Tell me what I did to you? I've been fighting for people's rights for a lifetime. Twenty years on the street fighting to give people dignity. My life has been characterized by the fight against any form of exploitation. You want me dead I've always struggled."
Aboubakar Soumahoro, a deputy elected with the Verdi-Si alliance, says it in tears in a video posted on Facebook.
With a voice broken by tears, Soumahoro - after the investigation into possible irregularities in two cooperatives in which his wife and mother-in-law played roles - adds: "But imagine if this rule will not be respected on my part also towards the mother of my current partner".
"You are afraid of my ideas, of those who fight," he adds.
"You think of burying me but you won't bury me. I haven't slept for days. I don't fight only for Aboubakar, I have never fought for Aboubakar. I fought for the people you have abandoned. My wife is currently unemployed, she is registered with the INPS , does not currently own any cooperative.
Why don't you talk to her? When I met her she was already working in the hospitality sector. Talk to my mother-in-law, ask her who owns her cooperative, and I will be the first to go there, to fight, to go on strike with the employees and defend their rights", he continues.
"The mountain of mud will not bury my ideas, you will probably be able to bury me physically, but you will never be able to bury our ideas, the ideas of the invisible", of "that world that you have abandoned".
"I am a person of integrity, clean", claims the parliamentarian.
