Soumahoro reports to Fratoianni and Bonelli: meeting tomorrow to clarify

A meeting to clarify and get out of the embarrassment of the case (currently all political and not judicial) which concerns Aboubakar Soumahoro and which risks doing a lot of harm in political terms. Tomorrow in the Chamber, where it will be inevitable to meet, the Italian Left-Verdi group wants to hear from the voice of the trade unionist-new deputy a detailed reconstruction of the facts that led the Latina prosecutor’s office to investigate the management of two pro-migrant cooperatives, the Consorzio Aid and Karibu administered in various capacities by Soumahoro’s mother-in-law and wife. In the crosshairs, possible irregularities in the contracts and alleged poor conditions of assistance for minors housed in those structures.

He, who immediately declared himself extraneous to the case, after a dramatic video in which he defended himself crying (“You want me dead”), has returned to the Apulian countryside in recent days: “Get up, resist and carry on as you are telling me in many. The commitment must go on because it is the popular mandate received and our life mission”, wrote the parliamentarian on social media, who has always fought for laborers and against illegal hiring.

A “history of social activist, trade unionist and politician” who “deserves respect and is the reason why we welcomed his presence on our lists and today in Parliament”, said the co-spokesperson of Green Europe Angelo Bonelli and the secretary of the Italian Left Nicola Fratoiannireaffirming “full trust in the judiciary” and “personal closeness” to my colleague.

But the note of solidarity from the red-green leaders also betrayed concern: “Net of the judicial aspects which will be clarified in the appropriate forums and which cannot be transformed into a media trial – we read again – the nature of the disputed facts also assumes a political significance which it concerns all those who, like us and Soumahoro, play a public role”.

In short, there is fear of an avalanche effect due to a symbolic name in the last elections (in any case recovered with the proportional system). Especially since the trade unionist of the Lega dei Farmhands, at the time of the candidacy, there was no shortage of reports from some territories of the Italian Left, where managers and activists are also engaged in the fight against illegal hiring. Events related to the management of the slums of Torretta Antonacci and Borgo Mezzanone in the province of Foggia and funds from the association founded by Soumahoro. Who had abandoned the USB base union of which he was a manager, leaving aftermath and controversy in that case too.

Therefore, it is better to sit around a table and clarify things. Provided that it succeeds: among the ranks of the red-and-greens there is no shortage of disappointment at the lack of dialogue in these hours. “In a community like ours, it would have been natural to do it sooner,” they leak. With in the background, even if excluded for now, the extreme card of expulsion from the group.