• Di Battista asks for congress. Cricket Frost. ABC, 'Chavez funded the M5s in 2010'
  • M5S, clash between Grillo and Di Battista on the proposal of a constituent assembly

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June 15, 2020 According to the Spanish newspaper ABC, the Chavez government sent a suitcase with 3.5 million euros to the Venezuelan consulate in Milan in 2010 to finance the 5-star movement in black. The Venezuelan foreign minister in those years was the current president, Nicolàs Maduro; the money would go to Gianroberto Casaleggio. The son Davide denies and threatens lawsuits. 

According to the newspaper, the current president of Venezuela, then Chavez's foreign minister, sent a briefcase with 3.5 million euros to the Venezuelan consulate in Milan addressed to Gianroberto Casaleggio to secretly finance the movement founded in 2009 by Beppe Grillo.

Crimi, on Venezuela fake news, we will evaluate legal ways 
"That of Venezuela's alleged funding for the 5 Star Movement is simply ridiculous and imaginative fake news. There is nothing more to say about the matter, except that of the distant 2010 I remember when I was candidate for president of the regional in Lombardy. Even then , just as in the following years, what we did was an election campaign made with very few resources and means, the result of micro donations from Italian citizens ". This was stated in a statement by the political leader of the 5 Star Movement Vito Crimi. "For the rest, we will evaluate whether to take legal action. Certainly we will not let ourselves be distracted by certain shots or intimidated by those parties and powers that are already riding them to try to weaken our bulwark position to protect the interests of citizens", concludes Crimi. 

M5s: Embassy Venezuela, false ABC news and we will protect ourselves 
Sources of the Embassy of Venezuela in Rome categorically denied the news published by the Spanish ABC on alleged funds donated by Caracas to the Five Star Movement. "False, counterfeit news. We are awaiting further information from our foreign ministry and studying the possibility of taking legal action," said the diplomatic representation. 

Clash in the Movement 
Distance clash between Di Battista who asks for a congress and Grillo who freezes him. Di Battista asks for a constituent assembly: "Then let's see who wins", he says. In close turn, Grillo's lunge: "There are those who have a sense of time like in 'The Groundhog Day'". And the risk of splitting returns.