“Arrest of Giovanni Toti? It’s a judicial earthquake the fact itselfthat is, the fact that the president of the Liguria Region is under house arrest, it is a rather rare case even for the low ethical standards of Italian politics“. They are the words spoken to Half past eight (La7) by the director of Everyday occurrenceMarco Travaglioanswering a question from the presenter Lilli Gruber on the house arrest of Giovanni Toti, accused of corruption.
Gruber asks the director of the Done the reasons why men in power are sometimes careless and demonstrate little caution. And Travaglio replies: “The poor precautions that Toti seems to have taken also depend on the fact that he lived in Berlusconi’s shadow for 30 years. I read with amazement that today there is someone who regrets it, saying that these are worse: there is nothing worse than Berlusconism. AND Toti is one of the last remnants of Berlusconism, therefore, having seen Berlusconi who managed to remain at large despite everything he has done in his life, it is clear that he has lost a bit of inhibitory restraint”.
Finally, the journalist throws a dig at the editorial director of the Century of Italy Italo Bocchinowho repeats the mantra of the entire center-right and the Renzians on the Toti case: “There is a great hypocrisy because now everyone says, as is right, to wait for the trial and the third degree of judgment, but then the final sentence arrives and what do they do? The definitively convicted are nominated. Brothers of Italy – he explains – for the European elections he is a candidate Sgarbi that is a convicted for continuous and aggravated fraud against the State and for forgery of a public document. Candida also Carlo Fidanza, who even got the corruption sentence himself, because he received a plea deal of one year and 4 months for corruption. So, he said it himself that he is corrupt, not some bad judge”.
And he concludes: “So, why do they continue to say they want to wait for the sentences, if then the final sentence arrives and the condemned people put them on the list? But they are waiting for sentences for what? To select the ruling class on the morning reports of the police station or the Court of Cassation?“
