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Giuseppe Conte walks on two ridges. One is political: survival or crisis, including a ticket back to academic activity. It will depend on what suits Matteo Renzi. The Florentine says that this time he is ready for anything, but as long as the alternative to this government is the elections, which would be a bloodbath for his party, no one takes him seriously. The other ridge is judicial: in the Catania trial of Matteo Salvini, accused of having “kidnapped” the 131 immigrants aboard the Gregoretti ship, the Prime Minister is a witness, but runs the risk of being investigated for competition. The problem is always that damn paragraph 2 of article 40 of the Penal Code: “Not preventing an event, which one has a legal obligation to prevent, is equivalent to causing it.” If the Minister of the Interior had committed a crime, the Prime Minister, who according to the Constitution “directs the general policy of the government and is responsible for it”, would be equally guilty.
And Conte not only knew, but agreed across the board, says Salvini. He is not looking for a career, on the contrary: by proclaiming himself innocent he also defends the prime minister, precisely because the responsibilities of one are those of the other. The narrative that the head of government wants to be a victim of the anti-immigrant schemes of his deputy Liga has not stopped from day one, and yesterday he received another powerful election from Giulia Bongiorno, who was a minister in that executive and today is a defense attorney for the holder of the League. Among the many documents he presented at the trial there is a video from a year ago, which, seen in light of the accusations made against Salvini, does not seem to leave a third way for the magistrates: or the then Minister of the Interior is innocent, like himself power is repeated from the beginning, to the point of requesting the dismissal of the accusation for kidnapping, that is, guilty; in this case, however, he is equal to Conte and other ministers. The images are those of the most official event there can be: the end of the year press conference that took place on December 28 at the Villa Madama seat of government, with the Italian and European flags behind the premiere. Responding to a direct question about the role he played in the days when Gregoretti was away, Conte affirms: “Surely there was an implication of the presidency”, that is, of himself, “as has always happened, for the relocation”. Because always, at the presidential level, also with the help of the Foreign Ministry, we have worked to relocate and then allow the landing.
Distribute immigrants to other countries and “then then”, or only later, disembark them: the point is here. It was the line carried out in those days by Salvini, which Conte recognized as his own and shared with the Farnesina, ruled at that time by Enzo Moavero Milanesi. Bongiorno has submitted many other documents, including numerous “tweets” from Conte and Toninelli, but not much more is needed. Feeling the air that was blowing in Catania, yesterday the prime minister considered it appropriate not to appear in the bunker room of Bicocca prison. Also because it was too easy to predict the figure that Danilo Toninelli would remedy, forced to take refuge in a series of “I don’t remember”, “I don’t know” and “it wasn’t my competence.” Therefore, it is better for Conte to distance himself, even physically, from the former grillino minister, and choose another place and another time.
Thus, a prerogative reserved to “great State officials” was accepted, whose testimonies can be collected in their offices, “in order to guarantee the continuity and regularity of the function they are in charge of.” However, to put it mildly, the head of government’s official agenda yesterday was not very dense. There was only one commitment, at 3.30 pm: “President Conte intervenes by videoconference at the 2020 Climate Ambition Summit”. The trial hearing was in the morning and he would have all the time to support the questioning, have lunch and then repeat the usual speech on global warming in video connection, after the coffee and the coffee killer. Instead, he chose to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the law.
The magistrates and Bongiorno will therefore listen to him at Palazzo Chigi on January 28, and it is inevitable that he will take advantage of this month to study the best strategy with which to explain, contextualize what he said on that occasion and respond to the other documents prepared by Salvini’s lawyer. . A possibility denied to mere mortals, but which the highest positions have at their disposal even when there is no objective need. Privileges that are poorly reconciled with the rhetoric of those who proclaimed themselves “defenders of the people”, who have now become their own defenders.
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