TRENT. All in few hours. I arrive in Italy with state flight (on board a Falcon with tricolor flag whose journey it would have cost over 130 thousand euros to the resulting taxpayers Codacons complaint to the Court of Auditors for misuse of public resources). Welcome with great pomp and ceremony president of the council and live broadcaster of Tg1. Transfer to Verona prison, selfie photo with Andrea Di Giuseppeparliamentarian of Brothers of Italy from inside the prison (an absolutely unconventional practice) and yesterday, in record time, the judge’s green light to meet the mother in Trento (with attack by the prison police due to the evident disparity in treatment compared to the thousands of Italian prisoners who dream of such rapid visit permits).
Today Chico Forti returned to Trento after 24 years in prison for murder in the United States and he was able, thus, meet your mother and dearest loved ones. The meeting with the mother lasted about 4 hours it arrives after 16 years of not seeing it (mother is 96 years old). Forti arrived in the Cristo Re neighborhood in the early afternoon escorted by the penitentiary police and to welcome him there were some dozens of people (many journalists). Not the committee’‘A chance for Chico” (perhaps, individually, some members participated but the committee as an ‘institution’ did not) which over the last 25 years it has raised public awareness and promoted initiatives regarding Forti’s case and supported Chico during his detention in the United States.
The reason is simple and he explains it Lorenzo Moggio president of the committee: “Ithe media hype that was created around the story of Chico’s return it was excessive. We worked in silence for 25 years with only one goal in mind, that of him returning to Italy as soon as possible. We are very happy that it happened and, as I have already had the opportunity to say publicly, we will certainly not fail to give him our support, but we prefer to keep – as we have always done – a low profile. Today he went up to Trento to meet his mother and that’s the only thing that matters. For the rest I won’t comment.”
And undoubtedly the political exploitation of the affair is taking on truly cumbersome contours. Today the opinion of Michaela Biancofiore president of the parliamentary group of the Senate Civics of Italy – We Moderates – Maie: ”It is in these hours that Chico reaches his Trento to embrace his ninety-year-old mother Maria again after 16 years That awaits him with his favorite dish: dumplings. At his house, waiting for him in my Trentino will also be his brother Stefano and his tireless uncle Gianni who fought for his return without ever finding peace. What an immense emotion for Chico. Today the Italian judiciary he demonstrated speed and sensitivity and I hope that this efficiency can always be an example for the future. A Thank you from all over Trentino Alto Adige to Premier Meloni who made this unexpected return possible, and to all those who allowed the meeting with the mother who inevitably warms the hearts of all Italians”.
