"This morning I woke up and found my face in some national newspapers associated with the term mafia, I asked myself who the two women in the photo were and I contacted the people with whom I worked on social anti-mafia and the fight against organized crime. The former commander of the Carabinieri of Bari Vecchia and then the former director of the State Police and we had difficulty understanding who they were. I then called the parish priest of the cathedral and we understood that they are two relatives of the boss Capriati but they have nothing to do do with the rest of the family."
Antonio Decaro says it in a live Facebook broadcast.
Decaro also explains that the older woman portrayed in the photos published today, which would have been taken in May 2023, "is a sister of the boss Capriati but she would be unrelated to the clan's illicit affairs".
"I - added Decaro - was sorry to end up in a photo where I am compared to the mafia but I also imagine the difficulty of these people who have nothing to do with it. Don Franco (the parish priest of the cathedral, ed.) told me that a lady she married a man with whom she runs a shop, the lady's daughter has married a writer and together they attend the parish. I'm sorry but I have broad shoulders, these two people have nothing to do with it. I don't see why they should find themselves in a photo just because they asked the mayor to take a photo in front of their shop, as happens to me every day."
Foti, photo of Decaro with sister and boss nephew.
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The Interior Ministry commission arrived in the Bari Municipality
The access commission appointed by the Interior Ministry which will have to evaluate any mafia infiltration within the administration arrived this morning at the Municipality of Bari.
The commission is made up of Claudio Sammartino, retired prefect;
Antonio Giannelli, vice prefect;
Pio Giuseppe Stola, major of the Scico of the Financial Police.
Foti, "photo of Decaro with boss sister and nephew. True or false?"
A photo appears of the mayor of Bari Antonio Decaro with the sister of the boss Cipriati.
The image was published in the Giornale e della Verità.
"A photo is circulating on social media in which the mayor is arm in arm in May 2023 with the sister of the boss Capriati and a young woman" - writes Il Giornale - explaining that the image, posted on Facebook, had been commented on the virtual bulletin board by Vincent Capriati: "Our stuff".
"7 May 2023: the mayor of Bari De Caro photographed with two women who are respectively the sister and niece of the lifer prison boss Antonio Capriati. True or false?".
Thus Tommaso Foti, group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber on X, posting the photo.
Meloni: 'The accusations against Piantedosi are shameful'
"I think that the accusations made against Minister Piatendosi are frankly shameful. I think that the minister acted correctly. The inspection access that was ordered by the Ministry of the Interior is not prejudicially aimed at the dissolution: it is a verification that must be carried out. And it is exactly the same measure that would have been used against any other municipality".
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this on the sidelines of the Campobasso initiative for the signing of the Agreement on cohesion and development funds with the Region.
"I return the accusations of using these measures politically to the sender. We have not forced anything. We would have forced it if we had not arranged for inspection access which would have been arranged in the same condition for any other Italian municipality".
Giorgia Meloni thus responds regarding the Bari affair and the inspection ordered by the Ministry of the Interior.
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