The wind blows, Bonelli justifies himself for the turnaround on Ilaria Salis: “Because I had to deny it”

Angelo Bonelli returns to L’aria che tira, the program hosted by Davide Parenzo on La7, 24 hours after the live denial of Ilasia Salis’s candidacy with Verdi and SInistra italiana, announced shortly after. When the indiscretion was published on the Foglio website, the environmentalist leader flatly denied everything: “I deny it”. The newspaper’s editor, Claudio Cerasa, then sent a “message of full and heartfelt solidarity with Bonelli because he evidently finds himself on a list where the decision maker is someone else and where he evidently doesn’t know what’s happening inside” . Benelli was also online today giving his version of the facts: “I apologize but I had no other alternative than to deny it because, while we were talking, the papers were entering the prison” in Budapest where the teacher from Brianza is detained awaiting trial on charges of having participated in the beating of Hungarian right-wing extremists.

In short, Bonelli argues, “my confirmation could have compromised the signature”, and he replies to Cerasa: “You will understand, there is no problem of good faith or of being unaware”, it was just “prudence”. “I take responsibility for having said something that is not true. I apologize but my presence was dictated by this reason”, reiterates the politician according to whom a confirmation could have compromised the signature, authenticated by the consular authorities. But will Salis now be able to leave prison? Only if she is elected to the European elections, at that point the Hungarian authorities will probably “request authorization to proceed and the European Parliament will decide”.