She waited in silence, she waited for someone else to expose themselves and then, only at that point, did she speak too: Francesca Albanese he found his speech again after the arrest of Mohammad Hannoun and 8 other people, accused of having more or less close links with the Hamas terrorist organisation. Specifically, he waited for the person to speak Stefania Ascariparliamentarian of the 5 Star Movement who had relations with Hannoun, as she herself admitted, having participated in trips to the Middle East organized by the Jordanian architect’s associations.
“Maximum solidarity to those affected by this latest wave of defamation without any restraint, and full trust in the activities of the investigators. In the meantime, we continue to fight for an end to the genocide in Gaza“, writes the UN special rapporteur for Palestine in one of her latest posts commenting on the one published shortly before by Ascari who, like Laura Boldrini, dissociates herself from Hannoun, like the Avs leaders who say they don’t know him. “If the investigators’ investigations confirmed links to terrorists, this would be very serious. But the only place in which the facts are ascertained is precisely the judicial one – not in talk shows or in newspapers, not with government showgirls“, attacks Ascari from social media.
A post that evidently found the support of Albanese, given the re-sharing, in which Ascari rejects “with disdain the defamatory accusations made against me. It’s about deliberate liesbuilt to delegitimize me, hit me politically and to intimidate those who don’t align with the mainstream narrative“. And it is she herself who in her post lists the activities in which she participated together with Hannoun starting from 2018, when her party represented the majority of parliament: “I participated in humanitarian missions in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, at the Rafah crossing, distributing food parcels and basic necessities to civilian populations reduced to hunger; to dehumanized children, women and elderly people who pay for wars, sieges and criminal geopolitical choices. Transforming humanitarian aid into an instrumental accusation it is an act of political and moral barbarism“.
And this is why, Ascari claims, that “the one in progress is one squalid mud operationorchestrated by sectors of the government and amplified by newspapers attributable to the same political area, with the aim of targeting those who denounce hypocrisy, complicity and double standards“. He then accuses the government of using “the press as a weapon, which strikes on a personal level those who cannot deny on a political level, who deliberately confuses solidarity and terrorism to fuel fear and consensus. I don’t accept lessons from those who act like this, I don’t give in. The truth cannot be erased with mud, and whoever tries to intimidate me will have to fully assume political and moral responsibility“.
What is being done these days is a reportage activity with the aim of following the thread that in recent years has allowed Hannoun to be accredited at an institutional level: and it is a transversal activity with the aim of bringing out the connections built over the years. Justice will establish truth and responsibility, where there are any, in full compliance with the guarantee principle.
There have been numerous politicians who have had contact with Hannoun in recent years, including Alessandro di Battista, in addition to the two already mentioned. In Genoa, one of his speeches during a pro-PAL event also attracted several mayors from the PD area such as Silvia Salis, Beppe Sala and Matteo Lepore to the stage.
