"After having made a formal request to the proceeding judicial authorities, the honorable Andrea Cozzolino will also ask the parliamentary assembly to which he belongs to be heard in order to answer all questions and offer all the information and clarifications useful for ascertaining the facts. Mr Cozzolino does not intend to invoke parliamentary immunity for the political activity he carried out in a free and transparent manner, being completely unrelated to the crimes for which he is proceeding".
The lawyers of the MEP Andrea Cozzolino, Federico Conte, Dezio Ferraro and Dimitri De Beco declare it in a note.