The Bari case continues to remain at the center of political controversy.
At the center of the fuss was Antonio Decaro, the mayor of the Apulian capital, where the Interior Ministry sent an "access commission" to evaluate any mafia infiltration within the administration.
An intricate story. Decaro, in fact, after learning of the inspection, had called a press conference to clarify the "correctness" of his and his council's actions and to dispel any possible shadow. Therefore, a well-attended demonstration was organised, called by the CGIL and the Pd, to express closeness and solidarity with the mayor .
Later, however, to further disturb the waters, came the words of the Apulian governor Michele Emiliano , who said that years ago, when Decaro was his councillor, he had taken him "to the sister of a boss".
This was enough to make the centre-right rise up and in particular the League, which with the deputy secretary Andrea Crippa thundered: «The Interior Ministry should proceed as soon as possible with the dissolution of the municipality of Bari. After Emiliano's self-denunciation it is impossible and intolerable to continue to have in office a regional president and a mayor of the capital who rely on the sister of a boss to carry out the activity in the area".
After Emiliano's exit, Decaro himself was quick to deny the story. Then, however, a photo appeared of the mayor with two women, relatives of a boss . So controversy has been added to controversy and now a new position has arrived from the mayor of Bari , who explained in a live Facebook broadcast: «This morning I woke up and found my face in some national newspapers associated with the term mafia , I I asked who the two women in the photo were and I contacted the people with whom I worked on social anti-mafia and the fight against organized crime."
Again, Decaro continued: «The former commander of the Carabinieri of Bari Vecchia and then the former director of the State Police and we had difficulty understanding who they were. I then called the parish priest of the cathedral and we understood that they are two relatives of the boss Capriati, but they have nothing to do with the rest of the family."
«I am sorry - added Decaro - to end up in a photo where I am compared to the mafia but I also imagine the difficulty of these people who have nothing to do with it . Don Franco (the parish priest of the cathedral, ed.) told me that a lady married a man with whom she runs a shop, while the lady's daughter married a writer and together they attend the parish. I'm sorry but I have broad shoulders, these two people have nothing to do with it. I don't see why they should find themselves in a photo just because they asked the mayor to take a photo in front of their shop, as happens to me every day."
(Unioneonline/lf)
