The mayor of Bonorva, Massimo D'Agostino, together with a Social Services official, has been sent to trial for alleged failure to follow the correct procedure, ordered to ensure adequate assistance to a user of the town.
A decision taken by the PM after, a few months ago, the mayor and the municipal employee had been reached by a notice of investigation issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Sassari.
The mayor informed his community with a post on his social page . The investigation would have arisen from a complaint, which concerned the alleged abandonment of an elderly lady by her granddaughter.
" Questions concerning an evident family dispute, rather than the actions of the administration, never mentioned in the complaint", D'Agostino emphasizes. The Prosecutor's Office has deemed it appropriate to extend the investigation, involving both an official of the Municipality of Bonorva and the mayor himself, "for a possible objective responsibility on the actions of the official". But he explains: "The checks and assessments that we have made in the following weeks, together with the results of the investigations carried out by the investigators, including several visits to the lady, have always confirmed, in our opinion, the impeccable behavior of the official, who has always acted according to the law and protecting the good of the citizen".
D'Agostino then underlines the "oddity" : «I was called to answer because I was considered responsible in any case in the presence of any procedures, omitted or anomalous, conducted by one of my officials. Given that I absolutely claim the correctness and effectiveness of the behavior of my collaborator, whose professionalism and scrupulous adherence to the rule are well known, can you imagine the mayor of Milan or Rome, if he were to be responsible for every single behavior of their hundreds of officials?»
And he adds that he has the utmost confidence in the judiciary . "We are convinced that the outcome of the proceedings will only confirm the correctness of the official's behavior and my total extraneousness to the matter." Of course, faced with situations of this type, "it is easy to intuit the responsibility of each mayor but also the ambiguous Italian legislation that on the one hand requires the appointment of those responsible and on the other still holds the mayor responsible for the behavior of his officials." Then he concludes:
