• Beppe Grillo, the case of the video in defense of the son bursts in the Chamber of the Chamber

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April 22, 2021Continue to discuss the video of Beppe Grillo in defense of his son Ciro accused of rape together with three friends.



"The recent statements by Beppe Grillo discourage the process. It is essential for the democratic life of the country that the trials, and those for sexual violence above all, take place without undue media pressure", wrote

the Board of the Anm

, underlining that "the magistrates of Tempio Pausania will be able to ascertain the facts with serenity and balance, guaranteed by their professionalism, respecting the rights of all, of the accused, who must be assisted by the presumption of innocence, and of the complainant, whose dignity must be protected" . 



This time to end up in the viewfinder is

the undersecretary of justice, the pentastellata Anna Macina

, who in an interview with Corsera defends the Guarantor of the 5-star Movement, the video "is a father's cry of pain. I see a lot of the human side. Almost nothing political" , although in her opinion she "should have avoided" doing so.



But to unleash a new storm, after the bitter controversy aroused by the words of the former Genoese comedian, is the attack that Macina directs to Giulia Bongiorno, senator of the League and defense lawyer of the girl who denounced the violence, as well as lawyer of Matteo Salvini.



Words that make the Via Bellerio party rise up, asking for his resignation from the government, while Bongiorno announces that he will go to court (same as Salvini).



The video of which Grillo himself and his wife speak, and which according to Ciro's parents would exonerate the boy from the accusation, "hasn't Salvini seen it?" Asks the M5s undersecretary.



"On TV Salvini said he had talked about it with Giulia Bongiorno, and said he had known other details. Isn't it that this video, which he shouldn't have seen anyone, he saw it? It would be serious. story of which it is not clear whether Bongiorno speaks as a defender (who has that video) or as a senator who passes information to her party leader, of which she is also a defender. I was frozen to hear her say that she will bring Grillo's video to court, suggesting that the father's behavior will fall on the son. What does he want to do, the family trial?



In the afternoon after the controversy, the undersecretary of Justice Anna Macina arrives. "My words were, and are, an invitation to clear the field of misunderstandings and ambiguities on a matter with respect to which I have never allowed myself to enter into the merits but which must not be politicized", states Macina who adds: "I am amazed from the dust that has arisen, on my part no accusation but a simple question, which arose after some statements in the press by Senator Matteo Salvini. Only the request for clarity and transparency ".



The reply of the Northern League senator

Giulia Bongiorno

was not long in coming: "He launches into imaginative, very serious accusations against me," says Bongiorno.



"Moved by the culture of suspicion (towards enemies) that characterizes the 5-star Movement, Undersecretary Macina seriously damages my image as a human being, even before being a lawyer, in trying to insinuate that I have disclosed to anyone the proceedings of the trial . I have been dealing with violence against women for decades as everyone knows. I assumed this position a year after the denunciation that gave rise to the investigation and I have never spoken to anyone about this proceeding despite numerous and pressing requests from journalists. Undersecretary Macina will have to answer for these raving statements in court ", announces the senator.



And the League asks for the "immediate resignation" of the undersecretary, whose "insinuations are very serious,  insulting and unworthy of a member of the Government ".



For the Via Bellerio party, "the embarrassment of the 5-star Movement for such a serious affair involving the family of their founder is not a good reason to tarnish Senator Salvini and lawyer Bongiorno. The leader of the League will act against the undersecretary in all civil and criminal offices ", it is known.



It is not only the Lega that criticizes Macina's interview.



"The M5s Undersecretary for Justice attacks in the newspapers the lawyer (Giulia Bongiorno) of the girl who denounced the son of her leader and insinuates that the documents are disseminated by the defense for political purposes. The Minister Cartabia, who has made her secrecy style, chase it right away ", writes on twitter

Enrico Costa

, deputy and head of Justice of Action.



"The 5 Star Movement is overcoming all limits, and is transforming, also through its government representatives, a judicial matter into an all-political confrontation. I invite the pentastellati to tone down", says

Matilde Siracusano

of Forza Italia.



For

Maurizio Gasparri

"in a normal country, an undersecretary of justice who gives an interview to the main newspaper to attack the lawyer of a girl who has been raped would have already been thrown out".



"Undersecretary Mancina has seriously violated her institutional duties", says Renziano

Gennaro Migliore

, who speaks of "intolerable behavior", "we are in the most flagrant of violations of behavioral codes", observes the exponent of Iv.



The president of the Justice Commission,

Mario Perantoni

,

takes sides in defense of the pentastellata

, expressing "solidarity and support" to Macina, who poses "completely legitimate questions and doubts", says the M5s exponent.