Carceri, Di Matteo: "Bonafede proposed Dap to me and thought better of it". Minister: amazed

2020-05-04T04:47:27.319Z

Question and answer, during the transmission It is not the Arena on La7, between the magistrate Nino Di Matteo and the Guardasigilli Alfonso Bonafede. The magistrate said that "Bonafede asked me if I was available to accept the role of head of the penitentiary administration department or, alternatively, that of general manager of criminal affairs. I asked 48 hours to answer", but "when I returned, having decided to accept the appointment as head of the Dap, the minister told me that he had thought better of it and in the meantime they had thought of appointing Basentini". Di Matteo recalls that, in the hours between the proposal of the Minister of Justice and his decision, "some information that the GOM of the prison police had sent to the national anti-mafia prosecutor but also to the management of the Dap, so I think they were known by the minister, they had described the reaction of very important mafia bosses, also linked to Giuseppe Graviano and other slaughters to the indiscretion that I could be appointed head of the Dap ". Those mafia bosses, he says, said "if they name Di Matteo it's the end". However, "beyond their assessments - he adds - I went to see the minister 48 hours later, I had decided to accept the appointment as head of the Dap but suddenly he told me that he had thought better of it". Pressed by the conductor, Massimo Giletti, Di Matteo points out: "To the minister I said 'Allow me to speak with my family before deciding', and when I went to say that I would accept Dap, in the meantime the minister had thought better of it or someone had led to rethink this I can't know. "We would like you as our collaborator, you can choose or be appointed to the DAP, and I can do it immediately, or you can choose the direction of criminal affairs, but in this case you have to wait for the maturing of a situation ', it was Bonafede's first offer ". Instead of the appointment to the Dap, in the second meeting, "the minister asked me to accept the role of director general in the ministry. The next day I told him not to count on me because I would not accept", concludes Di Matteo. "I am amazed to learn that information is given that can be serious for citizens, to the extent that an erroneous fact is revealed, that is, my choice to offer Di Matteo the important role within the ministry was a choice I would have gone back to because I knew about wiretapping. " Thus replies the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede, to the words of the magistrate Nino Di Matteo to 'It is not the arena'. "I talked to him about the possibility of making him play one of the two roles he spoke of - he added - I told him that between the two roles for me it was more important that of director of criminal affairs, more frontier in the fight against the mafia and it had been the role played by Giovani Falcone ".