Stefania Craxi, daughter of the former premier Bettino, says she is indignant after the revelations of Giuliano Amato on the Ustica massacre, for which it was a tip from the socialist that saved Gaddafi. Real target, according to Amato, of the French missile that would have shot down the DC-9 Itavia and killed 81 people in 1980.
"Craxi has always been a man of the West and moved with loyalty, as one does among allies, none of whom must be subordinate to the other," says the chairman of the Senate's Foreign Affairs and Defense Commission to Corriere della Sera. "The truth was close to his heart, he wanted to do justice to the innocent victims of Ustica," says the senator.
«Without fear of contradiction - he adds - as long as Craxi lived he knew nothing of that disaster. Amato lies for the throat, I don't know if for the mnemonic capacity or for malice", Craxi declares in an interview with La Stampa, underlining that he has "even traced a manuscript" of his father in which "he explains exactly how he was in the dark about that matter."
In his personal notes - reports the senator - the former socialist prime minister claimed "how the hypothesis of a missile hurled at another military target was shocking. He wrote thus: "It would be equivalent to saying that a multinational wall of silence would have covered up the truth of the facts for a long time". “All of this, if true, would be unbelievable, staggering, of incalculable scale and consequences.” The text is from about 1990».
«I can equally guarantee that Craxi - his daughter continues in an interview with QN - was always in search of the truth and when the news of possible missiles began to circulate he judged it an event of extraordinary gravity. Amato - is the attack - is exactly as my father defined him: an extraterrestrial. Because when he talks about events that took place in the First Republic it always seems that he is passing by or is there by chance or that he was living on the moon at that time ».
In the meantime, yesterday, after the no comment from the Elysée in the morning, the French presidency – called directly into question by Amato – decided that the Quai d'Orsay should express its opinion on Ustica. Paris, is the note from the Foreign Ministry "has already provided every element in its possession on this tragedy". But "if Italy asks us again, we remain available".
(Unioneonline/D)
