Matteo Renzi at "Leopolda 11" (Ansa)
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November 20, 2021 Matteo Renzi chooses to expose his version of the facts on the investigation of the Florence prosecutor's office on the Open Foundation, which from 2012 to 2018 supported his political activity, speaking from the Leopolda stage. His is mainly a political defense, for that in the courtroom the task will be up to his lawyers. Although he assures that "I will ask to speak at every hearing" and that he will fight "in criminal and civil courts, asking for damages from those who are defaming me because my children must know that everything that is happening is simply not true, while the truth is that they want to try us because we have been involved in politics ".
He had announced in recent days that he would have dedicated today's intervention to the event to the legal matter that sees him under investigation for illegal financing of parties together with ten other people, including three exponents of the so-called 'Magic Lily': Maria Elena Boschi, Luca Lotti and Marco Carrai. And when he speaks, he promises that he will use calm tones. But then it is a river in flood for over an hour, with attacks on all its main political opponents, from the 5-star Movement to D'Alema and Bersani. "D'Alema has destroyed MPS that not even the plague has succeeded. I am ready to confront him, with Bersani, with the 5 stars and relations with Venezuela", he thunders from the stage.
He does not spare the harsh criticism of the entire Democratic Party for the "cowardly silence". "Open is a much smaller affair but with a great media and political impact", underlines the former premier. Which goes into specifics. "Which crime is contested? Illicit financing of politics - he explains - It makes you think that there is money taken secretly, violating the rules, then you discover that that money is not only tracked, but all reclaimed. The issue of the dispute is not illicit financing, but the second part of the sentence, 'to politics' ". Renzi defines the legal affair that concerns him as "Kafkaesque" and adds: "The prosecutor says to Leopolda there was an activity of a party or a current of a party. Incredible, I have always said that I will never create a current within a party ,rather I make a party and return the card: done. And now they accuse me of wanting to create a current. "" The magistrates think that in politics the currents work as in the judiciary where the CSM makes big clashes - he attacks - If we acted in that way we would take guarantee notices for illicit influences ".
The leader of Italia Viva claims the right of politics "to organize itself as it sees fit" and reiterates that "no foundation had the rules of transparency in entry and exit that the Open foundation had". For Renzi, the magistrates "made Matthew wrong. They used fewer men to search for Matteo Messina Denaro", and "in this process it is impressive that the 92 pages that have arrived are the result of a work that has brought hundreds of men of the police forces and many people removed from their work on the major issues of crime and brought to the crime of illicit financing of politics ". According to the leader of Italia Viva "the truth is that you want to try us because we have been involved in politics". Finally, Renzi raises the alarm: "Who decides whatis it politics and what is it not? In democratic countries this is decided by Parliament. Where the magistrates decide, the democratic system is not correctly defined. If a judge decides, democratic freedom is at risk ".