“They don’t even know what it is” – Libero Quotidiano

“They said they don’t even know what it is“. So Massimiliano Pica, defense attorney for Marco and Gabriele Bianchi, was expressed about the accusation against the two brothers of being recipients of citizenship income. There would be nothing wrong with that, if it weren’t for the fact that they have always had a standard of living well above their declared income: between SUVs, boats, designer clothes, hotels and luxury vacations, it is clear that they have suspicions arisen from the investigators. In addition to the Bianchi brothers, the other two detainees (Mario Pincarelli and Francesco Belleggia) also received the grillino subsidy: from the patrimonial investigation it appears that the respective heads of the family requested the claim and that the three families they would have received about 30 thousand euros. Money that could be requested to return to the state in case of false statements. “We have never received or asked for income from citizenship,” was the defense of Gabriele and Marco Bianchi before the investigators. “During the interrogation – added the lawyer Pica – my clients said that they never perceived it and do not even know what it is.”