Bentivogli: "Born to rekindle hope in the night of politics"
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19 September 2021 Again threats aimed at the former leader of the Fim Cisl, Marco Bentivogli, now coordinator of Base Italia.
This morning, at his home in Ancona, he found a letter with bullets containing threats against him, his family and the men in the escort.
The package, found around 6.40.
Accompanying the letter, 10 loaded bullets, 5 per shotgun, 5 per 7.65 pistol. The police and the scientific police immediately intervened on the spot. The umpteenth episode of intimidation against the leader of Base Italia led to the intensification of the protection device assigned to the safety of Bentivogli. From 2010 under escort for the Ilva case, In 2020 he had received a letter with three cartridge cases carrying this message: "We will celebrate the Pomigliano agreement together anywhere in Rome or Ancona, resignation is not enough"
According to the Adnkronos news agency, the threats contained in the letter sent to the coordinator of Base Italia, Marco Bentivogli, to his family and to the escort, would concern the Ilva affair and there would also be references to the navigators, the tutors who are entrusted with the identification of potential jobs for citizenship income recipients.
"My daughter and my wife are in shock, they also threatened the escort. I hoped they would not arrive in Ancona," Marco Bentivogli told Adnkronos.
The solidarity of the political and trade union world arrives immediately.
"A serious and disturbing fact are the threats to Marco Bentivogli and his family to whom we express the solidarity and closeness of the CISL. The institutions have a duty to ascertain responsibility. We must counter this climate of hatred and intimidation that exists in the country ", writes on Twitter the leader of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra, expressing the solidarity of the CISL with Marco Bentivogli.
There is no lack of solidarity from the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando "Solidarity with Marco Bentivogli and his family for the disturbing threats received. We must resolutely reject any attack on pluralism and any attempt to condition free democratic confrontation", reads a message entrusted to Twitter.
The current secretary general of the Fim Cisl, Roberto Benaglia defines "A very serious new fact, unacceptable in a democratic country. time that we do not want to think of seeing return ".
Finally "This ignoble act of intimidation cannot and must not exacerbate the climate of tension, fears and strong critical issues that our country is experiencing. There is a need for unity among all political, trade union and association forces, against these cowardly acts that undermine democracy ", says Rocco Palombella, general secretary of Uilm.