That is how false compatriots constructed –

Rita Cavallaro

13 maggio 2024

From the stolen ancestor to false baptisms, to invent a household tree through which the descendants are magically nearly all feminine, so as to lose monitor of the Italian surname and acquire citizenship by descent. It’s the system on the heart of what’s turning out to be a enterprise, which may have legal organizations within the background, and which is applied above all in South America, the place each day the Italian consulates churn out tons of of passports for brand spanking new residents by proper of blood. A scandal, dropped at mild by the grievance of the Fratelli d’Italia deputy, Andrea Di Giuseppe, and which is spreading, as a result of it’s the focus of an investigation by the Rome Prosecutor’s Workplace but in addition the topic of random checks by the Farnesina. Overseas Minister Antonio Tajani, in truth, has ordered focused inspections in diplomatic workplaces, to research the practices labored by officers and the paperwork introduced by candidates.

Even the Curia has began investigations into baptism and marriage certificates, required for the certification of ancestors.
The Italian consulate in Caracas was below scrutiny, the place the ministry inspectors, along with the carabinieri and financiers, centered their consideration on 23 citizenships granted, together with 9 to the identical household unit, headed by a Lebanese-Venezuelan tycoon near the Maduro regime and with ties to the Islamic world. The suspicion is that there’s a sale of the paperwork essential to reconstruct the lineage to acquire the passport. The rip-off apparently originated with the theft of the id, within the registry workplace of some small municipalities in central Italy, of an ancestor born within the mid-nineteenth century and left for Latin America.

There the wedding and the beginning of a son. At that time a lineage of daughters, so as to justify the full lack of the surname over the generations. Not solely id paperwork, but in addition baptismal data requested from the Curia competent for the municipality of beginning of the ancestor. In Marciana, one of many locations on Elba the place the progenitor of the Venezuelans supposedly got here from, the disturbing discovery that the request had not come from Caracas, however from a Chilean lady who claims to be his great-granddaughter. A circumstance that casts a shadow on the disturbing speculation that, within the consulates in South America, many new Italians could have used the identical ancestor, with none household relationship present with the great-great-grandfather.