“The prison documents weren’t secret. I asked Delmastro for them»- Corriere.it

“The ones I mentioned they weren’t wiretaps, but a conversation picked up in prison and included in a report from the Ministry of Justice whose content, as a parliamentarian, I could be made aware of. Paradoxical that the parliamentarians of the Democratic Party, instead of explaining why they went to see Cospito and what they think of the 41 bis, attack me ». Giovanni Donzelli, deputy of FdI, one of the best known faces of Meloni’s party e Vice President of Copasirdoes not reverse an inch.

Honorable Donzelli, you brought back to the Chamber an intercepted conversation between Cospito and a member of the Casalesi clan who allegedly encouraged the battle against the 41 bis. Don’t you think it’s a mistake to disclose such sensitive information?

«I have not divulged interceptions but I have spoken of what is reported in a report to the Ministry of Justice of which, as a parliamentarian, I was able to know the content. I have not violated any secrets.”

Who gave you the report?

“They didn’t give me any confidential documents. Wishing to delve into the Cospito affair, I asked the undersecretary for detailed information Andrea Delmastro».

The opposition is calling for his resignation as vice president of Copasir.

«Had I disclosed confidential documents that I had come to know through Copasir I would have to resign, of course. But Copasir has nothing to do with it. And verifying it is simple. Those who have no sense of institutions are those who went to see Cospito».

But it is the prerogative of parliamentarians to visit the detainees and check their conditions.

«And what was the outcome of the visit? Article 41 bis secures the state and is recognized not by a government, but by the judges, in their autonomy. In the case of Cospito, then, the signature under the measure was put by a minister of a government of which the Democratic Party was a part, while we were in opposition. But we defend the institutions of Italy, not a part”.

Is the visit to Cospito enough to make you ask in the Chamber whether “the left is on the side of the state or of the terrorists with the mafia”?

«I only asked the parliamentarians of the Democratic Party to be clear on the subject of the 41 bis and specifically of Cospito in the 41 bis. They stutter. Released from prison, they said that the penalty must be humane. But Cospito does not suffer any inhuman treatment. Apologize to them. With the Italians. Cospito is fighting for all the inmates who live under his own prison regime and the mafiosi are rooting for him ».

Two days ago, however, Cospito was transferred to another prison by the current minister: a belated intervention?

“I do not believe. I trust the institutions. And in any case it is a transfer that does not suspend the harsh regime. If someone claims that, since Cospito is on a hunger strike, he should no longer be in the 41 bis, please say so. But then why should it not apply to Matteo Messina Denaro who is ill?».

He will have to answer before the Jury of honor of the declarations on the parliamentarians of the Democratic Party.

“I’m happy to go there. I said some things that one may not agree politically with but I didn’t insult. And if we can only say about the Pd in ​​the Chamber that they are very good … I want to see who will take the responsibility of supporting him ».