Nicola Cosentino, the guarantee and the executionist fury
Nicola Cosentino, former deputy of the PDL, former undersecretary for the economy of the Berlusconi government, was acquitted on appeal
Therefore, Nicola Cosentino, former deputy of the PDL, of distant political origin PSDI, social democratic party, former undersecretary for the economy of the Berlusconi government, was acquitted on appeal , after 9 years. This is the so-called investigation "The prince and the dancer", after the Hon. Cosentino was acquitted in the Supreme Court for another important judicial proceeding.
I am not able, having never been a court reporter, to list that real mess of inquiries, proceedings, convictions against "Nick 'O Mericano" (so defined because of the family origins of emigrants in the USA, who later became important oil companies).
The only certainty is that in the mainstream left-wing media circuit he always figures as the "Camorra". Like the title of the movie. Certainly being born in Casal di Principe (Caserta) did not help him in the image on the "magazines".
I only know that Nicola Cosentino, as I have known him as a parliamentary reporter, is not the monster that has been described.
He is a graduate, he is a lawyer, a person of good reading, even with his Neapolitan irony, even in the most difficult moments. Like when, thanks to the votes of the PDL, he was saved in the House by a request for arrest.
Doubts as to whether he was a Camorra, at least in that fundamental procedure, after having read the papers very well, were expressed even by the radical Maurizio Turco and by the then deputy, Pd, former PCI, Pds, Ds, Gianni Cuperlo.
There was a vacuum around the deputy Cosentino in the Montecitorio ocean liner. Even some of his party colleagues were displacing him by now.
There were 4 or maybe 5 journalists by now talking to him. And this remains a source of small personal pride in my guarantee. I don't know "Nicola" well, but I talked to him until the end of those days when he wandered like a hunted down the corridors of Montecitorio.
What were we talking about? Actually from Baia Domizia, my vacation spot, since I went there with my dad, then technical director of a large private company in Naples, contractor of the A1, Rome-Naples stretch and beyond, up to Orvieto and Chiusi-Chianciano. Caianello, one of the shipyards directed by my father, is very close to Baia Domizia (Caserta).
With Cosentino we sometimes recalled the golden years, when Baia D. was considered the Argentario of the South, built by a mixed Veneto-Campania company under the aegis of the DC.
I don't know if I ever told Cosentino about when my father's dog was killed because he had fired a worker, absent for months without reason, one in the smell of the Camorra. Maybe yes, I told him.
The last time I spoke with the Hon. Cosentino at Montecitorio he told me: “What will I do now? I will make a blog in defense of unjustly convicted, a blog against the abuse of preventive detention ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/nicola-cosentino-il-garantismo-e-la-furia-giustizialista/ on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 04:52:37 +0000.