First interrogation for Giovanni Toti after the precautionary detention order under house arrest for the governor of the Liguria Region, involved in the investigation into the corruption in Genoa. During the interrogation, the president had decided to make use of the right not to answer, first wanting to read the papers and understand what the points on which the accusations against him had been made were.
This morning he showed up at the Guardia di Finanza barracks in Genoa, where he will be heard by the deputy prosecutors Federico Manotti and Luca Monteverde and by the deputy Vittorio Ranieri Miniati. The interrogation takes place in the headquarters of the Roan, the air-naval operations department. The governor, taken this morning from his home in Ameglia, entered through the via dei Pescatori gate in a black car. The meeting was supposed to be at 11am but was postponed by about an hour.
At the moment, they are not on the table resignation: the governor could obtain the revocation of pre-trial detention if he resigns his mandate, because the conditions that triggered it would be missing. He would also have an easier time defending himself if he no longer held an institutional role. However, Toti first wants to talk to his allies to understand what is best for the Region. The governor’s defensive line was anticipated by the lawyer to Corriere della Sera, to whom Stefano Savi explained that “Toti doesn’t promise something to Spinelli he does an activity mediation“.
As previously announced, the governor is answering all the investigators’ questions on the accusations made against him in what takes the form of a river interrogation.
It is expected that the interrogation will last several hours and it is not excluded that, if it were to continue until late at night, there could be a second day of interviews, even if not necessarily scheduled for tomorrow.
