“Mayor, I’m being investigated for corruption”. And Gualtieri renews his trust in councilor Lucarelli

“Dear mayor, I’m sorry, but I’m being investigated for corruption”. According to what is reported in the newspaper, in recent days Monica Lucarelli, councilor for Commerce and Security of the Municipality of Rome, informed the mayor of the capital, Roberto Gualtieri (Pd) that she had received a guarantee notice for an investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thirteen for corruption and bid rigging, a family that has held the business of bar trucks and stalls in the historic center of the capital for decades.

The mayor dem is not willing to intervene: he will wait for the outcome of the investigation and in the meantime the commissioner will remain in his post in addition. In the Municipality they focus on archiving.

In fact, sources from the Campidoglio al Foglio explain: “We learned from Monica Lucarelli that she was registered in the register of suspects. We have full confidence in the work of the judiciary in the belief that the Councilor will soon clarify her position and will be able to demonstrate her complete extraneousness. From what has been learned and from the first checks carried out, no damage to the municipal administration would emerge from the disputed facts”.

Lucarelli adds: “The hypotheses of crime that have been challenged to me are groundless and inconsistent. One of the crimes, the hypothesis of corruption, is not attributable to a possible action of mine since the competence of the administrative acts under investigation, related i.e. to the security of the square, is not from Rome. The second, the auction disturbance, is related to an expression of interest to promptly find accommodation for flower market operators who were forced to work on the street following the closure of the structure in via triumphale. Event to which only Investimenti spa responded with an unacceptable proposal because it is not consistent with the minimum conditions set out in the tender”

Lucarelli two months ago was involved (never investigated) in the affair of Camilla Marianera, a collaborator of his staff arrested on February 14 on charges of being the mole in the Prosecutor’s Office of the Roman underworld (starting with the Casamonicas). The woman was immediately removed from the Capitol.

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• Simone Canettieri

• Viterbese, 1982. On paper since September 2020 as editor. Eight years for the Messenger (in the news and for the politician). Even earlier in Emilia Romagna as a correspondent (between the birth of the M5s and the earthquake), in Florence as editor of the Nuovo Corriere (dealing with crime and judicial news every morning). He started in Viterbo at 19 with skating and minor football, then at 26 he got his first job. He has written for Oggi, Linkiesta, travel and gastronomy inserts. He collaborated with RadioRai, but also with local television and radio stations that never paid. Agnes 2020 Award for printed paper in Italy.