That truffle guarantee of the center-left between Salvini and Open Arms
What do those who wanted to try Salvini say now in the light of the news that emerged in the Open Arms trial? Paola Sacchi's note
Who knows if who in the Senate in that July 2020 sent Matteo Salvini to trial (Five Stars, with an abstention, all of the center-left, including Matteo Renzi 's IV, with the exception of the no in defense of the policy with which Pier Ferdinando Casini distinguished himself) , one of the last times in which the divided oppositions of now found themselves united on what Silvio Berlusconi defines "political use of justice, first against me, now against Salvini", now he will be reflecting on that ghost file of the Open Arms trial.
Who knows if even in the face of the surprise release of that piece, which could be decisive for proving alleged contacts between the Open Arms and smugglers, that compact center-left against the political opponent – leader of the League, former Minister of the Interior, now holder of the Infrastructures and Deputy Prime Minister – also combined with the future "third pole" which is said to guarantee, today he would take up that decision. Choice for which Casini, who had been elected as an independent by the Pd himself, at the time when Renzi himself still led him, lashed out at his allies, admonishing them on the fact that "the opponents must be defeated with politics", because "that of Salvini was a political decision ”. Decision of an executive, the yellow-green one of which the former interior minister was also then deputy prime minister. Perhaps the left would make the same decision.
Some left-wing observers, while proclaiming themselves always proud guarantors, now reiterate that Salvini, despite having made the wrong choice, should not have been sent to trial. But they add that now the problem would arise whether the interceptions with the Spanish NGO have been authorized. As if to say: you guaranteed yes, but perhaps more with the NGOs, to implicitly conclude with a Pilates fact: that's how it went in the Senate now.
Guaranteed obviously you have to be with everyone and in the case in question with Open Arms. Although, as Senator Giulia Bongiorno underlined, in the role of defense attorney of the leading senator of the League, investigations were practically only in one direction.
The story of those files never acquired so far in the documents of the Palermo trial, despite being shot by 9 prosecutors, more than the left, which probably would have always given a thumbs down, above all increasingly puts in the spotlight a certain inconsistency guaranteeing the "third pole". in its race to get "moderates" from all sides. With attempts to raid Forza Italia on the Northern League itself, where Letizia Moratti, the Lombard candidate of Calenda and Renzi, yesterday also launched messages to Umberto Bossi himself, grappling with the first public outing of the "Northern committee", where he is Salvini himself was always whipped, called to return "to his origins".
Let's not go into this story, it is, however, an objective fact that Bossi's story was much bigger than that of a committee or internal current. The fact remains that the phantom file of the Open Arms trial casts a grave shadow on the judicial, political and media fury in general against the man who saved the League from the precipice of just over 3 percent. And that the political use of justice has been influencing center-right politics and governments for about 30 years. Now Salvini, who was also the promoter with the Radicals of the referendums for real reform, is also referring the question to the government of which he is an integral part, as the second shareholder, bringing the matter to the attention of Minister Carlo Nordio.
Salvini says: "There is a ghost file, I'm sure Nordio will look into it". He explains : "The Sicilian prosecutors, that of Rome and the military prosecutors knew that the Spanish NGO Open Arms had intercepted (in Libyan waters) a boat of immigrants thanks to the tip-off of an unknown subject able to suggest the exact position of the boat . Was it a smuggler? Doubt is legitimate and objective data make you shiver”. He reconstructs the story: “August 2019, last weeks of the Conte 1 government. Only now – three years later! – we learned that there were photos, videos and recordings of the NGO, immortalized by a submarine of the Italian Navy, which could rewrite the history of a trial where I risk up to 15 years in prison (for kidnapping ed)”.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport recalls: "The anomalies of that rescue, including the dialogue in Spanish between the NGO and a person familiar with the exact position of the immigrants, were on the table of nine prosecutors but the documents were never been transmitted neither to the Lazio Regional Administrative Court (which rejected the ban on entry into Italian waters for the OpenArms), nor to my defenders, nor to Parliament, which decided to send me to the stand, nor to the Gup. I find it very serious. And I'm surprised that some news reports today try to minimize (if not censor or even alter) similar news".
Salvini's conclusion: “I am sure that the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio will be able to investigate a story that appears frankly serious and scandalous. As far as I'm concerned, with my lawyers we are studying very important initiatives. Forward, head held high, convinced that defending Italy is not only a right but a precise duty!”. The blue senator Maurizio Gasparri, now vice president of Palazzo Madama, then president of the Immunity Board who had said no to the trial, a no later overturned in the courtroom by the surprise yes from Renzi and his men, was indignant. Gasparri believes that not having made the Senate aware of that "phantom" file risks resulting in an "attack on state bodies".
That day in July in the hall Salvini was close to Gasparri and FI senator Stefania Craxi. Leaving the Senate on that torrid afternoon after the vote, someone from the center-left majority and the Five Stars whispered to another with some satisfaction behind the mask: "We have fixed it". As if the affair had already passed in cavalry. It doesn't really seem like that.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/quel-garantismo-tartufesco-del-centrosinistra-fra-salvini-e-open-arms/ on Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:38:38 +0000.