Fratelli d'Italia asks the M5S to replace Scarpinato in the Anti-Mafia commission

Brothers of Italy asks the 5 Star Movement to replace Senator Roberto Scarpinato in the Anti-Mafia parliamentary commission. The request is contained in a letter signed by the FdI group leaders in the Senate and the Chamber, Lucio Malan and Galeazzo Bignami. It is addressed to the five-star group leaders Luca Pirondini and Riccardo Ricciardi and sent for information to the president of the commission, Chiara Colosimo, and to all the members.

At the origin of the case is the decree with which the investigating judge of Caltanissetta Santi Bologna closed, at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, the line of investigation against unknown persons on the 1992 massacres linked to the mafia-procurement dossier. In the same decree, the judge closes by statute of limitations the proceedings for aggravated aiding and abetting against the former prosecutors Gioacchino Natoli and Giuseppe Pignatone.

The investigating judge focuses on Scarpinato, former magistrate and now M5s senator, for a phone call with Natoli, his former colleague, which took place before the latter's hearing at Palazzo San Macuto. «What it is necessary to point out here is the misleading activity carried out by Senator Scarpinato towards Doctor Natoli», writes Bologna.

Malan and Bignami recall that passage and also cite from the decree a "pollution activity" carried out "in a favorable sense". According to the two FdI exponents, it is "completely evident that it is impossible to work calmly, as well as to protect the full institutional reliability" of the commission if among its members sits someone who "a judge of the Republic has indicated as the author of misleading activity on the very facts that the commission is investigating".

Hence the request to "replace the senator with another member of your group". «You have always declared respect for the words of the magistrates involved in the fight against the mafia. This is the opportunity to demonstrate it with facts", they conclude. Already yesterday the vice-president of the commission, Mauro D'Attis (Fi), had defined the senator's behavior as "disturbing".