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May 05, 2020 The lawsuit Di Matteo vs Bonafede was born with an attack by Nino Di Matteo on live TV. Di Matteo told Massimo Giletti of June 2018, when Bonafede called him to offer him the post of director of prisons or general director of criminal affairs at the ministry, but only 24 hours later the minister had changed his mind. According to Di Matteo some mafia bosses would have said: "if they name Di Matteo it is the end".

Bonafede, however, replied forcefully on Facebook: "A hypothesis as defamatory as unfounded and absurd: just remember that, when I decided to contact Dr. Di Matteo, those expressions of mafia prisoners in prison were already in my ministry for a few days On the other hand, if I had let myself be influenced by the reactions of the mobsters, I would certainly not have called Dr. Di Matteo to evaluate with him the possibility of collaborating in a prominent position ".

While the opposition calls for clarity on the case and calls for a parliamentary debate, there are those who call for the resignation of the minister and embarrassment is growing at Palazzo Chigi as well. This morning the deputy editor of L'Espresso, Lirio Abate, guest of La7, raised further concerns about the matter.  

Journalistic doubts
It is possible that "something strange" happened and affected Bonafede's goodwill to "appoint Di Matteo as head of the Dap", something "nobody has ever explained". "As to why Bonafede changed his mind, we asked ourselves right away, but no one has ever explained these reasons. The fact is that the mafia members in prison, in early June, complained that the idea that Del Dap could arrive Di Matteo. Now - Abbate underlines - what happened in June 2018, this must only explain who was in those rooms ". 

Political reactions
"I found this modality of public attacks disconcerting and terrible in a live television broadcast, the institutional perimeter was exceeded. The accusations were heavy, it is right that the minister clarifies his position. He tried to do it in tv, but it was not the appropriate venue "So the former President of the Chamber, Laura Boldrini .

"Justice is the same for everyone, there can be no shadow of suspicion. Think if it happened against a minister of the League or Berlusconi ... We would have ended up in the newspapers and on all the televisions. Now nothing. Signor Crimi , head of the 5 Star Movement, said: a misunderstanding, the minister and the magistrate must be clarified. No, when there is a shadow of conditioning in the choice of someone, a chat is not enough. We need real clarifications, possibly in Parliament. " Matteo Salvini said it live on Facebook. "Giletti has brought to light an incredible shame on the Minister of Justice, we will go all the way to get clarity, justice is the same for everyone. It will take real clarifications, certain, not on television but in Parliament". 

"Yesterday I asked for an intervention by Morra, president of the Anti-Mafia commission, on the Di Matteo and Bonafede affair and on the release of the mafia. Today I regret: he spoke. Confused and confusing, President Morra, urged by the scandal, specifies that he will" deepen " , but a second later he assures that Bonafede has no blame either for the release of the mafia, nor for the failure to appoint Di Matteo. Have you already studied in depth? How? By what means? Antimafia is a serious thing, not the tool for Grillanda propaganda with no respect for institutions. Morra in a second assumes the role of public prosecutor, office lawyer and conniving judge. Connivance is now the hallmark of pentastellati in the field of justice: beautiful end ". This was stated by Andrea Delmastro , member of the Fratelli d'Italia.

"Minister Bonafede will have to explain to Copasir how he intends to guarantee national security also in the management of prisons. Today I will solicit his hearing also in light of what the magistrate Di Matteo denounced about the mafia's overwhelming power". So on Twitter the senator of Fratelli d'Italia, Adolfo Urso , vice president of Copasir.

"I have never made any discounts to Bonafede nor will I start making them now: he is clearly the worst Minister of Justice in the last 50 years. If he abstracts from the names and memberships of the subjects involved, it is however equally evident that Di Matteo's gesture was very serious: it is not possible for a member of the CSM to make accusations against a government minister for personal matters, moreover not in an institutional seat, but on television. There is little to complain if then there are doubts about how to manage the self-government of the judiciary ". So the deputy of Forza Italia Francesco,  Paolo Sisto .

"Di Matteo against Bonafede, the show that makes Giletti and Cosa nostra happy. I hope there is a necessary and urgent clarification, to prevent the mafia members from celebrating for 'incomprehension'". The senator of the M5s, Elio Lannutti writes it on twitter .  

The dismay of the insiders
"Minister Bonafede finds himself unjustly attacked, free of charge and, in my opinion, illegitimately by an idol whose idolatry has led him to be a minister". This was stated by the president of the Union of Criminal Chambers, Gian Domenico Caiazza ."The absurd thing is that a prosecutor can pick up the phone and make statements of fact clearly insinuating towards a legitimately minister in charge for events of two years before which he had not considered initiating any initiative." According to the leader of the criminal lawyers, therefore, "the question to ask is: what can allow a prosecutor to take such an initiative and why with two years of delay? Bonafede's choices are political - Caiazza found - and therefore o they are illegal, or they can be criticized, judged and Parliament will judge them, but the last person in the world who can judge them is a prosecutor. "

"After the disasters in the penitentiary system for which the Minister of Justice sacrificed the head of the Dap rather than assume his responsibilities and following the serious events that have directly involved him in the last few days, Alfonso Bonafede still tries to climb on the mirrors and tries to defend against the political protests of the oppositions towards a management of its delicate dicastery not up to the needs ". Luigi Vitali , former Undersecretary of Justice, says so .