The lawyer of Piero Fassino postpones, together with his client, “any comment” on the affair perfume slipped into the pocket of the PD parliamentarian in duty free of Fiumicino airport, on 15 April, “to the future full reading of the documents”. The lawyer says so Fulvio Gianaria which speaks of “a banal and unfortunate episode which would have deserved a calm investigation” and instead “is sensationally turning into a media aggressiona truly parallel process whose only explanation is the known surname of the citizen involved”. However, new elements emerge as the Polaria, the police that operates in the airports, is finalizing the information that will go to the Civitavecchia Prosecutor’s Office. Let us remember, in fact, that there is one complaint. According to Corriere della Sera “Piero Fassino’s position is becoming more complicated”, so much so that on Monday the agents will proceed to listen to the testimonies of the operators of the Terminal 1 shop.
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The ex-minister’s version is that it’s all a misunderstanding: his phone rang and seeing that he had one hand busy holding the trolley “I placed the perfume in my pocket with the intention of paying”, Fassino had told the Done. Dynamics that would not be the one immortalized by security cameras. There was then talk of a previous similar case. For everyday life, however, there would be at least two other suspicious episodes in this matter” emerged from Polaria’s checks and from what was claimed by the company that manages the duty free. “Fassino would have already been caught by the security with items for sale that he had not paid for. And at that point he would reach into his wallet and pay the bill. Instead, on April 15th the owners of the duty free shop took a severe decision, apparently driven by them precedents cases”, we read in the newspaper.
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What happens now? The managers’ complaint and the policemen’s information will reach the magistrates of the Prosecutor’s Office of Civitavecchia, who will have to decide whether to open an investigation. In this context they will have to establish the possible “tenuousness of the fact”a decision that could be linked to a possible recurrence.
