Emiliano to the Antimafia: “I am not the subject of investigations”

Emiliano this week saw the motion of no confidence against him defeated in the Regional Council

ROME – “I ask you for protection, I ask you to tell all of Italy, please, thatthe president of the Puglia Region, at a hearing today, is not the subject of any investigation of any kind“. It is the final appeal of Michele Emiliano, president of the Puglia Region, in a hearing in the anti-mafia commission. Emiliano this week saw the motion of no confidence against him defeated in the Regional Council.

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Emiliano also returns to the case that overwhelmed the mayor of Bari Antonio Decaro and which had to do with the meeting with the sister of a boss: “I went to Antonio Capriati’s sister to reiterate that the rules did not apply more them but we made them”. In the anti-mafia commission, he recalled that “the intervention from the stage was intended to make it clear that the situation had changed, never to ask for protection” and these were “episodes from 10 and 15 years ago. I don’t rule out having said some imprecise things. If the current mayor says he wasn’t there with me, he’s probably right“, concludes the former magistrate who says about the past: “Bari old “was called ‘chippolandia’. This situation, which contrasted with the efficiency of the investigative repression, passed its mark when Michele Fazio, a 16-year-old boy, was killed”.
“Back then tourists were so rare that they were photographed” and he didn’t wear a “helmet none, in fact it was not recommended because only killers wore it. Now everyone uses it and there is no longer this feeling of insecurity”, he concludes.
And again, he claims, “in the last 20 years 120 confiscated movable assets have been sent to the Municipality of Bari, which obviously does not happened previously” and were used “for social purposes and to meet the needs of families in difficulty”.