“Sounding surrender. Confirmation on Decaro” –

“Emiliano’s sensational surrender”: this is how Maurizio Gasparri comments on what the president of the Puglia region said to the microphones of Tg1 last night. “We decided to establish the Ztl in Bari Vecchia. And Antonio and I, more Antonio than me, went around Bari Vecchia far and wide to explain the reasons for the measure. On one of these occasions, I certainly spoke with the Mrs Capriati”, said the governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano. When asked if Decaro wasn’t there, he replied: “Honestly, I certainly spoke to him and I spoke about the very strong resistance that Decaro was encountering in establishing the ZTL”. “In practice he confirms that he went to the boss’s sister. He confirms that according to him Decaro, then councilor, was also present. When asked he replied that he was right not to go to the prosecutor’s office to report the threats from the clans. If the boss threatens according to Emiliano with disciples in tow, intercom to the Capriati family. Arrogance knows no limits”, continued the president of the Forza Italia senators.

Disconcertion also expressed by Forza Italia’s Apulian parliamentarians. “We are beyond the limits of what is acceptable if a regional president confirms – not before a series of twists and turns, including denials and new versions – that he went as mayor, with the then councilor Antonio Decaro, to the boss’s house following threats. He said this to the microphones of Tg1. Men from the institutions who admit to having legitimized the mafia instead of reporting to the prosecutor’s office. What is happening in Bari is now no longer tolerable: a barrage of offenses against the institutions and intelligence of the citizens and we are the ones who say to them ‘hands off Barì. There are no untouchables in a state of law”, stated Dario Damiani, Rita Dalla Chiesa, Andrea Caroppo, Giandiego Gatta and Vito De Palma in a note.