"The statements made publicly yesterday by President Emiliano are worthy of an in-depth study by the Anti-Mafia Commission"
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Thus the vice president of the Anti-Mafia commission,
Mauro D'Attis.
"On the case of Bari - continues D'Attis - in addition to having acquired all the documents, a series of hearings must also be scheduled. Among these that of Antonio Di Matteo, former president of Amtab, the municipal corporation of Bari which today in a local newspaper talks about rigged competitions, complaints and, above all, silence: words that paint a very serious, pathological picture, which deserves careful investigation in all places."
"I wouldn't have talked to a boss's sister for any reason."
Thus Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani replied in Potenza to those who asked him about Michele Emiliano's remarks yesterday from the stage of the demonstration for Decaro.
"I wonder if Emiliano's aberrant words sound normal for PD secretary Schlein. In your opinion, is it normal for the then mayor of Bari and magistrate, Michele Emiliano, to go with Decaro to the sister of a well-known local boss? I
find it shameful that
no one from the centre-left, from Avs and from the Five Star Movement has yet commented on the statements of the governor of Puglia.
Not even the representatives of the Democratic Party in the Anti-Mafia commission have released any statement in this regard. There can be no ambiguity whatsoever on such a serious fact: I hope that the Democratic Party quickly distances itself from what Emiliano supported".
This was declared by
Riccardo De Corato, deputy of the Brothers of Italy, vice-president of the Constitutional Affairs Commission in the Chamber and group leader in the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission.
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"There is only one answer for me, it's not about the mafia": this was stated in a note by the Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomies, Roberto Calderoli,
on the case of the words said by the president of the Puglia region Michele Emiliano yesterday in Bari "Up until now I have not wanted to deal with the events of the metropolitan city of Bari, or even comment on them, because the minister appointed to do so, Matteo Piantedosi, is following them impeccably", adds Calderoli.
"I do it today - he explains - because yesterday during the demonstration in support of the mayor, Decaro, the perimeter was also widened in a regional context in light of the words of the Apulian governor Emiliano who, I report the verbatim sentence from the media, recalled: ' One day I hear a knock on the door, Decaro comes in, white as a sheet, and tells me that he had been in St. Peter's Square and someone had put a gun behind his back because he was carrying out inspections for the restricted traffic zone in old Bari... taken, the two of us went to the house of Antonio Capriati's sister, who was the boss of that neighborhood, and I went to tell her that this engineer is my councilor and has to work because there is a danger that children here could be hit by cars. So, if he needs to drink, if he needs assistance, I will entrust him to you." I repeat, words of Michele Emiliano. For years we have lived the story of the State-mafia negotiation and the related very long processes and today I ask myself: what changes in this case?
I would say nothing, the scenarios and protagonists have changed, but instead of the State there are still constituent subjects of the Republic such as the Municipality and the metropolitan city of Bari, instead of the Sicilian mafia there is the Apulian one, the massacres are missing but we have the declarations of a former mayor who is now the Governor of that Region".
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