Delmastro attacks the Democratic Party: “Explain the bow to the mafia in prison”

After Giovanni Donzelli is the friend, colleague and roommate Andrea Delmastro to continue the controversy against the four MPs from the Democratic Party who visited the prisoner Alfredo Cospito on 12 January. “The left – says the Undersecretary of Justice in an interview with Biellese – will have to provide public opinion with some explanation on that mafia bow in the Sassari prison”.

Delmastro refers to what was told by Walter Verini the day after the visit to Cospito, when the anarchist had told the dem he did not want to talk to them if they had not first talked to the other 41-bis prisoners. Among these others were the two bosses Francesco Di Maio, camorrista of the Casalesi clan, and Francesco Presta, Calabrian Ndrangheta. Verini told Fatto Quotidiano: “We didn’t obey Cospito: we would have done it anyway, even if he hadn’t asked us. The cells were closed, we could only see the faces through the peephole”.

For Delmastro, Cospito’s is “a request that the Pd delegation did not refuse, agreeing to bow when speaking with the two criminals”. To the newspaper of his city the undersecretary also said he will be put under guard. Same decision for the undersecretary Andrea Ostellari, which has the delegation for the treatment of prisoners. Temporary protection was already assigned to both today but the official decision will be made by the prefect of Rome on 10 February.

“It is truly disheartening to see that, while we receive death threats and end up under guard for this matter, the left is fighting against the method we have used to denounce these facts, concealing a very serious situation on the merits,” Delmastro told the Biella. “As soon as we have demonstrated that we have not committed any wrongful act by disclosing information that was not classified (and we are capable of doing so), the media lynching will end our damages and we’ll start talking about the merits of the story and the left will have to provide public opinion with some explanation on that mafia bow in the Sassari prison. The real question is that someone, illegally from prisons, tries to sabotage the 41 bis system which unites the detention of terrorists and mafia members”.