“With Decaro from the boss’s sister, he never denied” –

Michele Emiliano takes stock of the meeting with the sister of boss Capriati in which the current mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, then councilor, also participated with him. The Apulian governor, despite the mayor’s denial after his story, does not backtrack and outlines the picture of what happened, reiterating his words of recent days: “I – he tells Corriere della Sera – this fact of when Decaro and I went from Capriati’s sister after he had been threatened for the closure of that part of old Bari to traffic. I had already told it a thousand times, without anyone changing the meaning as has been done in the last few hours. Some of these times I had also told it in the presence of Antonio, who had had nothing to object to… Now, for goodness’ sake, eighteen years have passed, I can’t expect others to have the memory I have”.

“Capriati’s sister – continues Emiliano, a former magistrate – knew me very well, as mayor but also as a magistrate who had sent her brother to life imprisonment. Antonio didn’t know him, he had never seen him before her, for her he was a councilor like any other and today perhaps she doesn’t recognize in the mayor of Bari the person he had seen with me then… ”. The political storm that arose from his words does not affect him much, despite many stomach aches even on the left: “This is why when they even accuse me of having asked the boss’s sister for protection they don’t bother me at all and don’t create any kind of imbalance for me.” , On the contrary. I’m used to the inversion of the truth, especially when there’s an electoral campaign involved. There is a story that speaks for me, in Bari and outside of Bari. Perhaps I am wrong out of modesty in almost never remembering it. But I learned to be a magistrate from Rosario Livatino himself, in Sicily; and Rosario Livatino’s coffin, after they killed him, I carried on my shoulder”. Emiliano reiterates his iron memory of him, what will Decaro now say who had denied the meeting by Capriati?

Emiliano had also confirmed the meeting in Bari Vecchia already last night in an interview with Tg1: ““We have decided to establish the ZTL in Bari Vecchia. And Antonio (Decaro, ed.), more Antonio than me, and I shot for Bari Vecchia far and wide to explain the reasons for the measure. On one of these occasions, I certainly spoke to Mrs. Capriati. Honestly, I certainly spoke to her and I spoke about the very strong resistance that Decaro was encountering in establishing the Ztl. Am I backtracking on what was said on stage? No, but since it’s something from 18 years ago, if Antonio told me that he doesn’t remember being next to me, it’s possible that he’s right. It wasn’t Is it better to go to the prosecutor’s office? No, in this case we would have created a situation in which the prosecutor’s office, in my opinion, would have been unable to do absolutely anything.”