Cospito, Salvini: “The assignments of Donzelli and Delmastro are not discussed, but everyone turns off the tone”

The offices of Donzelli and Delmastro “should not be questioned”. Speaking is the Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini from Milan, on the sidelines of an inspection of the former gasometer park, where a new headquarters of the Milan Polytechnic will be built, the Bovisa Goccia campus. According to the secretary of the League it was “an afternoon parliamentary controversy”. The deputy of the Brothers of Italy and vice-president of Copasir Giovanni Donzelli, during the discussion in the Chamber yesterday afternoon, revealed classified information regarding the case of the anarchist Alfredo Cospito, previously detained under the 41 bis in the prison of Sassari and then transferred to Opera, in the province of Milan. Already yesterday afternoon, the Democratic Party had asked for the resignations of Donzelli and Andrea Delmastro, undersecretary of Justice of the FdI with responsibility for the Dap who had admitted having passed the wiretaps to his colleague.

Salvini then added that he hopes that “the story will end with a handshake” but that it is a moment “in which between politics and the judiciary, between the majority and the opposition, the less controversy there is, the better”. Therefore, “everyone contributes to not turning on the climate and to dilute the tones”.

The minister also answered journalists’ questions on the revocation of the 41 bis by explaining that “the possibility of reviewing it is a choice of the judiciary, including for the Cospito case. I let it do its job”. Then he added: “The renewal of the CSM” – which a week ago elected the Northern League’s Fabio Pinelli as vice president – “gives a new perspective from that point of view as well. If a magistrate believes that life imprisonment and solitary confinement are necessary , he will have made his assessments. As far as I’m concerned, they don’t touch either one or the other”.

Being in Milan, the deputy prime minister did not spare himself even on the subject of the Olympics, announcing a new meeting tomorrow in Rome to establish the state of the art on the dossier: “We are racing to conclude the Tirano variant for Bormio and Livigno and I will come soon to an inspection of the Olympic village”, he anticipated and then added: “We are committed to ensuring that the times are respected”. On the other hand, he is not worried about the increase in raw material costs, but rather about “the two years of accumulated delay”. He then added that “the Foundation is looking for private sponsors who are not on budget but will certainly arrive between now and 2026” . And on the disputed skating rink between Milan and Turin he added: “It matters to me that there is and that it costs little. I don’t skate anyway because I fall but it is essential that the athletes have it”.

As for autonomy, the minister is convinced that 2023 will be the decisive year: “As Calderoli said, this year everyone will bring contributions and suggestions. But then the game will end”. In fact, the Calderoli-branded reform arrives tomorrow in the CDM, at 4 pm. “It is the first formal step”, Salvini explains. “Then it will be the turn of the Parliament and the lep (essential performance levels) will be established.