The president of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano began the hearing before the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission, chaired by Chiara Colosimo.
The governor is heard as part of the in-depth investigation into the investigations into alleged infiltrations in the Apulian territory and the investigation that led to the Commission for access to the municipality of Bari.
Ansa reports it.
The hearing follows the controversy over the sentence pronounced by the governor during a public demonstration, on his alleged meeting, together with the then councilor Antonio Decaro, with the sister of the boss Antonio Capriati after alleged threats made to Decaro by affiliates of the clan.
Emiliano recalled his role as a magistrate in the Dolmen trial in which Antonio Capriati was “sentenced to life imprisonment” and was “attributed to the murder of Vincenzo Tesse”. “One of the reasons – he added – that pushed me to run for mayor in Bari in 2004 was the observation that, although we as magistrates had carried out as Anti-Mafia one of the most timely reclamation works in all of Italian history up to then, I had realized that the criminal action had to be converted into social anti-mafia”.
In 2007, the governor declared, “when I became mayor I established an agency for the non-repressive fight against the mafia. Since 2007 we have established the obligatory nature of the Municipality to be a civil party in trials against the mafia. In 20 years we have allocated 140 properties confiscated from the mafia to the Municipality. In one of the houses confiscated from the Capriati, in Piazza San Pietro in Bari Vecchia, there is now an association”.
