Bari, the clan and the Emiliano boomerang. Storm over Decaro, now he’s really at risk –

To say the mission failed is an understatement. The word that distinguishes the square of Bari is boomerang. Because if until Saturday afternoon, wanting to dispel the shadows of the hands of the clans on the city, there was only the Commission on the hypothesis of dissolution of the Municipality led by the dem mayor Antonio Decaro due to the mafia, after Michele Emiliano’s anecdote they the investigative lights of the parliamentary anti-mafia commission were also turned on. Who considered the statements of the governor of Puglia regarding that visit, together with Decaro, to the sister of the boss Capriati, to ask for some sort of protection from the clan to be very serious. “I entrust it to you”, Emiliano’s recommendation to the woman, as he himself says during the story on that stage, with a rather embarrassed, almost purple, Decaro next to her. Who, having ended up in the dust of controversy, took action: «As regards that particular episode, from almost twenty years ago, Emiliano doesn’t remember well. It is certainly true that he gave me all his support, in the face of protests from a good part of the neighborhood, when we began to close old Bari to cars, but I never went to any sister’s house.” A clarification that was not enough to extinguish the fire of indignation.

So much so that the vice president of the Anti-Mafia, Mauro D’Attis, announced the start of some hearings at Palazzo San Macuto. «The statements made publicly by President Emiliano are worthy of an in-depth study by the Anti-Mafia Commission. In the case of Bari – he guaranteed – in addition to having acquired all the documents, a series of hearings must also be scheduled. Among these is that of Antonio Di Matteo, former president of Amtab, the municipal corporation of Bari, who in a local newspaper speaks of rigged competitions, complaints and, above all, silence: words that paint a very serious, pathological picture, which deserves careful investigation in all locations.” Not just the president of the Municipality’s subsidiary. Emiliano himself could be summoned to the Anti-Mafia. The request will be made official by Senator Gianluca Cantalamessa, head of the Anti-Mafia Department of the League and group leader in the Commission. «Emiliano informed us that Decaro’s anti-mafia movement was born in the house of the boss Capriati’s sister. A chilling and disturbing revelation – underlines Cantalamessa – because in addition to dating, Emiliano explains that he “entrusted” Decaro to the boss’s family. This is all shocking.”

The in-depth analysis on the institutional level is followed by harsh political reactions. The watchword for the League is “resignation”. Of Emiliano, obviously. «Other than protesting against Piantedosi’s intervention: these sentences are intolerable and indicate not only that the Minister of the Interior acted in a sacrosanct way, but apparently there is much more and much worse. What is Schlein waiting for to ask for the resignation of his men? We expect a serious distancing”, said the Northern League senator, Claudio Borghi. The Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, instead defined the words of the Democratic Party governor as uncommentable, adding that “I would never have spoken to the sister of a boss for any reason”. Emiliano’s revelations are “chilling” for the undersecretary of Justice, Andrea Del Mastro. “You don’t negotiate with the bosses, you don’t rely on the bosses, the bosses are reported”, he reiterates, hoping for “great attention from the competent prosecutors” on the case.