Matteo Salvini during an interview (photo from the Ministry of Infrastructure website).
When Salvini exalted Dr, the Molise company that has now been sanctioned by the Antitrust (6 million euros) for having passed off Chinese cars as Italian.
When Salvini spoke of an “extraordinary company: making cars in Molise…”
Just him, the proudest opponent of the car made in China and in particular electric vehicles, considered the Trojan horse to sell off the European automotive industry to the Chinese.
He himself, the vice-premier and minister of Infrastructure, visited the headquarters in Macchia d’Isernia a year ago, abandoning himself to lavish praise: “Dr Automobiles Group is an extraordinary company, because already doing business in Italy is a remarkable thing given the bureaucracy, doing it in Molise is worth double. I must say that making cars in Turin or Miliano is one thing, doing it in Macchia d’Isernia, opening abroad and selling tens of thousands of pieces it makes me proud to be a humble participant in this evolution“.
And of course it hadn’t been missed the attack on the EU: “We try, and we will try, as a ministry to put companies in a position to grow, without the ideology that Europe wants to impose with only electric”
The good thing is that Di Risio has never hidden his ties with China
What is shocking now is not so much the Antitrus decisiont, as (above all) the defensive line chosen by the owner of the Dr, Massimo Di Risio: “Delocalization in the Far East of part of the production of cars (common practice in the automotive sector) marketed by Dr Automobiles Group it has never been hidden from the public.
As witnessed by numerous press articles and television reports, as well as from the information disclosed through the group’s official web and social channels“. How to say: everyone knew it and we never hid it. Less Salvini, who evidently should make his staff study better the companies to visit and praise. Especially since a year ago he enthusiastically declared that “lThe quality of the Dr product commensurate with the price is remarkable“. Maybe because it is a product (largely) made in China?
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