«Decaro and Emiliano deserve more in-depth attention from the judiciary. I am still disconcerted by the hearing of the public prosecutor of Bari before the Anti-Mafia. At that moment we understood well how things are in Bari and why we are unable to get to the bottom of the events concerning the Apulian city.” This was declared by the president of the Forza Italia senators Maurizio Gasparri.
«Decaro offends the centre-right – he continues – but says nothing about his responsibilities as mayor-councilor with responsibility for companies controlled by the Municipality. Investigations with suspicious assumptions in these situations multiply, but Decaro is never called into question. Emiliano then did not respond on a singular circumstance. A few minutes before the arrest of Pisicchio, whose relatives would have been involved in the investigation of the municipal companies that Decaro was supposed to control, he removed him from the tasks that he had given him in the Region. It is clear that there has been a leak. It is clear that Emiliano is not credible when he says that it was a coincidence. It is clear that the power group that formed under the banner of the Democratic Party around Emiliano and Decaro represents a reality that should be analyzed much more thoroughly. But unfortunately this does not happen. And Decaro, with his arrogance, defines the exponents of the centre-right as mafia. In reality, the person who went to the boss’s sister’s house was Emiliano, who says he also accompanied the then young councilor Decaro to that place, who however says that this is not true.”
«I don’t know how the elections in Bari will end. I know that the inspection of the Ministry of the Interior has a lot of material to make drastic decisions that appear inevitable. And the arrogance of Decaro and the words of Don Cassano who, let’s not forget, defined the Minister of the Interior Piantedosi as a criminal, make it clear what a disturbing situation we are faced with”, he concludes.
THE CANDIDATE VITO LECCESE: «INAPPROPRIATE WORDS»
«From the first day we denounced the politicization of the request to establish the commission» for access to the Municipality of Bari «but from the next minute the municipal administration guaranteed all possible collaboration, respecting the work of the commissioners, who it seems to me are fulfilling to a delicate and complex task with the utmost confidentiality. I don’t think Gasparri shows the same respect, who, no one knows in what capacity, improvises as spokesperson for the commission by talking about “inevitable drastic decisions” for the Municipality of Bari”. This was declared by the mayoral candidate of the Democratic Party for the Municipality of Bari, Vito Leccese, in response to the declarations of Maurizio Gasparri who spoke of «drastic and inevitable decisions» of the Viminale commission which is examining the documentation of the Municipality of Bari to evaluate the existence of any mafia infiltration.
«We are not aware – he adds – that the commission reports the results of its work to the Honorable Gasparri. It would be, indeed it is, completely unthinkable. The only inevitable thing is that, despite this umpteenth attempt by Gasparri to influence the vote, a few hours after the polls open, the center-right is about to lose the Bari elections once again, as always in the last twenty years ».
