Salvini process, the filing requested by the public prosecutor and the League that will be
Paola Sacchi from Catania
“I will not return to Catania alone, Conte, Toninelli, Di Maio, Trenta will also be heard. But beware, I'm not saying they're guilty, they're innocent like me. I trust the judges and this morning (October 3, ed ) I found a free, authoritative judge ”.
It's almost three in the afternoon, Matteo Salvini, flanked by the lawyer, senator Giulia Bongiorno, concludes his longest Saturday at the end of the press conference. He, who, as he recalls, had never before entered a court as a defendant in his life.
The preliminary hearing of the Catania trial with the accusation of kidnapping in the so-called Gregoretti case for the former Minister of the Interior of the Conte / 1 government ends in summary as follows: new request for filing by the Public Prosecutor of Catania, the decision of the Gup to listen to the prime minister and ministers of the time at the request of the civil parties (not the defense of the Northern League leader).
Bongiorno specifies that he only asked for the hearing of the current Minister of the Interior Lamorgese, “to verify whether even now the same disembarkation procedures used in the Gregoretti case are used. And that is, remembers Salvini's lawyer and senator of the League, "if those procedures are used that" according to a European Council of 18 June 2018, reinforced by a further agreement by Malta, do not provide for immediate disembarkation, even for the same respect for migrants, but after agreements for their redistribution ”.
Satisfied Salvini makes a joke: "The paradox was that I found myself the same accusation (the prosecutor, ed ) that defended me". Confirms that he has slept peacefully, he launches an entirely political accusation against his opponents, in particular the Democratic Party: “This morning in front of the court a demonstration of the left was also supported by the Democratic Party. Here, seeing a party demonstrating against the opposition leader on trial is something that perhaps not even in Venezuela would happen ”.
The League, as the “League captain” himself announced, “out of respect for the work of the judiciary, has decided not to be there (only a few voters sighted, ed ). This was announced by Salvini the night before in the large open space in front of the old Customs House in an interview on stage, at the end of the three-day Northern League "Trial me too" with columnist, journalist and writer Maria Giovanna Maglie.
While underlining that a justice reform is necessary in this country. Salvini also said that trying a former minister "for a political act is perhaps something that has never before happened in any EU country". "A serious precedent because, despite attacking her on a political level, I cannot conceive of Minister Azzolina being sent to trial for her choices that are completely wrong for me".
But Salvini does not spare an entirely political dig at the Five Stars, after attacking the Democratic Party: “I am a man who quietly looks in the mirror, whatever role I have. I'm not one for an armchair ”.
The attack on the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, is harsh: "This morning my lawyer Bongiorno was hit on the ankle by a piece of marble, detached from a wall, which showed cracks everywhere, luckily Giulia was not hit on the tendon, but the the President of the Court had reported the state of the structure several times to the minister ”.
Salvini is happy for the solidarity that the allies of the center-right Giorgia Meloni and Antonio Tajani have come to show him. Thanks them. But he also underlines the "left" solidarity that he did not expect for the Catania trial: "Paolo Mieli, Massimo Cacciari ….".
The conclusion of the three-day Northern League in Catania, for which Salvini thanks the militants who came at their expense also from the North and from the rest of Italy, is at the same time the image of a League that does not seem to have suffered the slowdown described by the mainstream .
Certainly, the Pontida del Sud, complete with anti-Covid measures, was carried out under the direction of the iron organizers of the former Northern League, those of the historic, real Pontida, starting with the Sicilian commissioner of the Lega Salvini premier, Stefano Candiani, senator Lombard and important figure of the Carroccio (Candiani, former undersecretary of the Interior of the former Minister Salvini), up to the technical mega-organizer of the great Northern League events Maurizio Bodatra. And the presence of a big player from the former Northern League like Roberto Calderoli, vice president of the Senate, was noticeable.
But on the stage it is impossible not to notice mayors, municipal councilors of the League of Sicily. Salvini himself recalls that for the first time the League has municipal councilors in Campania and Puglia, according to the latest regional ones.
Certainly it is at the same time a national league that needs to grow, to choose how to position itself in the most aggressive way in Europe in order to be more incisive. Salvini recalls that “we could be even more in the South, but we select, we want to lay foundations, solid roots”.
The number two leaguer, foreign manager, Giancarlo Giorgetti, to the reporter, sent "old legologist", so affectionately defines me, early in the morning in the clearing at the Customs, remembers, in an informal conversation, the need to have now "a long ".
He reiterates the need for the League "to confront the EPP, which the new leader of the CDU will express, in short, we must speak with those in charge precisely to assert the reasons of the sovereign people". Then, he remembers the times of Bossi, when "he sent us around to say that Berlusconi was a mafia member, but then a year later he made an agreement with the Cav that brought the center-right back to the national government ….".
Giorgetti remarks to the reporter: “We must increasingly have a long vision, politics and political vision must guide militants and voters, we must not be their followers, but the guide, who gives the vision. Never think that we are the earth around which the sun revolves, because then came what he said was the opposite. I mean that the electorate is mobile and politics is now very fast. Now, however, do not put me that I am against Matthew… ”.
No, that's the job of the mainstream. And Giorgetti is well aware that "Matteo" is the man of the miracle that has led the League to be the first Italian party.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/processo-salvini-larchiviazione-chiesta-dal-pm-e-la-lega-che-sara/ on Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:00:10 +0000.