G7. Ship seized by security agents: “Serious hygiene issues”
It was supposed to house over 2 thousand policemen, but the Brindisi prosecutor's office ordered its seizure. Fsp State Police: "Incredible story and there are still those waiting for decent accommodation"
BARI – The G7 in Borgo Egnazia begins with a first stumble, as big as a cruise ship. On the eve of its launch, the motor ship “Mykonos Magic”, renamed “Goddess of the Night”, was in fact seized by decision of the Brindis prosecutor’s office. /strong>”, which was supposed to host over 2 thousand agents and judicial police officers engaged in public order and security services necessary for the carrying out of the work of world leaders, starting tomorrow in Borgo Egnazia. After the reports received from the same agents who boarded the ship to take accommodation, highlighting the unsuitability of the location, the judicial authority immediately took action and on the eve of the Puglia G7 notified the emergency seizure of the vehicle ordered by the prosecutor head of Brindisi, Antonio De Donno.
THE REASONS: “RELEVANT HEALTH AND HYGIENE CRITICAL ISSUES”
“Relevant hygienic-health critical issues” but also “serious housing shortages”, such as to constitute the crime of fraud in public supplies: this is what was documented during the investigations concerning the motor ship “Mykonos Magic”, renamed “Goddess of the Night” subjected today to evidentiary seizure. The ship, owned by the company Mykonos Magica Inc., was supposed to host over 2 thousand agents and judicial police officers engaged in public order and security services necessary for carrying out the G7 in Borgo Egnazia, starting tomorrow. The seizure decree, issued by the Brindisi prosecutor’s office, was carried out this morning, Wednesday June 12, by the police.
The investigations, conducted by the central operational service of strong>state police and the Flying Squad of Brindisi, were launched following the “serious critical issues” reported by the police force personnel who had already boarded the motor vessel to take accommodation. The staff who had found accommodation on the Mykonos Magic have already been transferred to another ship or to other structures.
“The investigation elements collected by the police and the need for further investigative investigations also technical nature made it necessary to adopt the decree to seize the motor vessel”, highlights a note. For the execution of the seizure, the police personnel were assisted, for the aspects of specific competence, by the Port Authority and the Anti-adulteration and Health unit.
FSP STATE POLICE: “INCREDIBLE STORY AND THERE ARE STILL THOSE WAITING FOR DIFFERENT ACCOMMODATION”
The leaders of the Fsp State Police were also present today at the port of Brindisi during the notification of emergency seizure of the ship which had been provided to house the personnel, but then it was discovered be inadequate. Valter Mazzetti, General Secretary of the Fsp State Police, together with the Deputy General Secretary, Fabrizio Lotti, responsible for Public Order, boarded the ship together with the police commissioner Giampietro Lionetti, the director of the Flying Squad, Giorgio Grasso, the commander of the Port Authority, Luigi Amitrano. The charges being prosecuted are those provided for in articles 355 and 356 of the penal code, breach of contracts in public supplies and fraud in public supplies. “We will now await the judicial developments of this matter – concludes Mazzetti -, while in the immediate future the problem of housing the part of the staff who are still awaiting different accommodation after the real ‘disaster’ that has occurred remains to be resolved with dignity. Monday. But we naturally ask that full and total clarity be made on all aspects of an incredible story.”
AND THE PD QUESTIONS PIANTEDOSI: “DOES THE RENTAL OF THE SHIP COST 6 MILLION EUROS?“
The Brindisi Flying Squad proceeded to seize the ship Goddess of the night chartered to host over 2,500 law enforcement personnel aggregated in Puglia, in view of the imminent G7 meeting. A seizure due to the terrible sanitary conditions of the ship which, we learn from press sources, was chartered for the ‘modest’ amount of six million euros. We ask Minister Piantedosi to know if he confirms the cost of the operation and how it was possible to rent a ship in such poor condition for the police forces, causing unfortunate inconvenience to the staff as well as to the image of the company itself. ‘Italy on the eve of the G7”. Thus Debora Serracchiani, head of Justice of the Democratic Party, and Matteo Mauri, head of Security of the Democratic Party, who filed a parliamentary question with Minister Piantedosi after the seizure of the ship Goddess of the Night in Brindisi .