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01 December 2019 "No member of the Benetton family has ever managed Autostrade. The Benetton family is a 30% shareholder of Atlantia which in turn controls Autostrade. Atlantia is a listed company with 70% national minority shareholders and international, including important sovereign wealth funds and long-term investors, which have nothing to do with the Benetton family: news of these days about omitted checks, unsupervised faulty sensors or false reports hit us and surprisingly serious, in the same way that they strike and surprise public opinion. We feel injured as citizens, as entrepreneurs and as shareholders.

Thus Luciano Benetton, one of the founders of the industrial group, in a letter sent to some newspapers, defends the family ("we consider ourselves an injured party") against the "hate campaign" that was unleashed also by members of the Government ( "unacceptable point us as criminals"), and asking the institutions "seriousness, not indulgence" ..

"Certainly - underlines Benetton - we assume the responsibility of having contributed to endorse the definition of a management that has proved unsuitable, a management that has had full powers and the total trust of the shareholders and of my brother Gilberto who for how it was accustomed to work, he certainly placed the safety and reputation of the company in front of any other goal. He dreamed that we would be the best in infrastructure ". "I do not seek indulgence for Autostrade, those who made a mistake have to pay, but what I find unacceptable is the hate campaign unleashed against our family, with accusations that came immediately and are still vehemently continued by government officials, "Like Mr Di Maio, who points to the family as colluding in knowingly deciding to save on investment in maintenance. In practice, as if it were criminal. This is unacceptable, those who know us know how we work, just look at the results obtained with Autogrill or the Rome airport, two realities that have become international leaders ", stresses Luciano Benetton.