Mani Pulite and “the primacy of the judicial power”, speaks Davigo

Mani Pulite and “the primacy of the judicial power”, speaks Davigo

The former prosecutor Piercamillo Davigo responds to Giovanni Pellegrino and he has been doing it since Affaritaliani.it. This morning, the former senator of the Communist Party, then Democratic Party of the Left, from the columns of Corriere della Seraaccused the Milan prosecutor’s office of attempting to “affirm the primacy of the judiciary” with the “Clean Hands” investigation of 1992, thus destroying the First Republic. Basically an accusation of a coup.

Pellegrino reports a dialogue with Massimo D’Alema: “It was the spring of 1993. He granted me a meeting but after a few minutes he silenced me: “As usual, you lawyers are against the prosecutors. Do you want to understand that these people from Milan are making a revolution? And revolutions have always been made with guillotines and firing squads. So what do you want a few warrants or arrest warrants too many to be? And then Luciano Violante told me that we can rest assured, because Mani Pulite won’t take it out on us.”

When we reach him on the phone, Davigo answers us with the attitude that distinguishes him. Decisive, pointed, firm. “Pellegrino doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Everything was confirmed in the Court of Cassation”, cut short. “But doctor, Pellegrino…”, we are interrupted by Davigo who continues the sentence: “he says stupid things”. At the time “it was stolen like a charm”.

The magistrate who, together with Antonio di Pietro and Gherardo Colombo, composed the magic trident of the pool of the Milan Prosecutor’s Office that shook Italy in those years he is tired of these attempts to rewrite history. “They stole hundreds of billions of lire. I make them just one example: Malpensa, new airport, the expected expenditure after the variations during construction was 4 thousand 300 billion, after our intervention it returned to 2 thousand 600 billion”.

We move on to the topic of “red cooperatives”. Pilgrim, it must be remembered, he was president of the Board of Elections and Parliamentary Immunities, the body that authorized or denied the Prosecutor’s Office to proceed against an investigated politician. The former communist explains that when “Russian funding stopped, the PCI began to be fueled by cooperatives that participated in public procurement”.

“The cooperatives were called red because they financed the PCI and wrote it in the budget, when there were cases of corruption we also took action against the cooperatives, like that of Argenta, and the Cmc, so Pellegrino as usual is at least approximate and does not know the things he talks about, because if he knew them he would be a deliberate defamator”, explains Davigo.

The now retired former magistrate told the whole story in a text: “I wrote a book, there is a reconstruction of the facts, ‘The missed opportunity’”. Why missed opportunity? “Because we missed the opportunity to become more like the countries we believe we resemble.” With the investigation involving the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, are we returning to the 1992 system? “You never got out of that system,” Davigo is terse when he says after a sigh: “I can no longer hear this from people who are either in bad faith or ignorant.”

Chapter Titti Parenti. Pellegrino talks about the prosecutor who took the investigation into her own hands due to a series of fortuitous cases: “In Milan Saverio Borrelli had taken a few days off, in which he had himself photographed on horseback. Antonio Di Pietro and Piercamillo Davigo had flown to Brazil to explain to Brazilian magistrates how politicians could be put in prison. Gherardo Colombo was on a tour of Europe giving conferences. And only Gerardo D’Ambrosio remained at the Prosecutor’s Office. But he had a transplanted heart and had to go to hospital due to the heat.” Titti Parenti remained, “whom the pool colleagues had always kept on the sidelines of the investigation”.

According to Pellegrino to Parenti “it didn’t seem true to her that she could take the stage. And he had the idea of ​​sending to the Senate a request for authorization to proceed against Marcello Stefanini, last treasurer of the PCI and first of the PDS: he accused him of tax fraud, illicit financing and obviously aggravated corruption. From the papers I noticed that the request was very weak and I was already determined to reject it. But in the meantime the uproar had broken out in the PDS.”

And indeed On this point, Davigo states that Titti Parenti “didn’t get anything out of the hole” explaining that “the problem is that she was then presented by Berlusconi as Minister of Justice of their government, obviously they didn’t make her Minister of Justice, because the evidence against Greganti (communist official convicted of illicit financing, sentence subsequently negotiated ed) were found not by her, but by others.”

After which “the fact remains that Greganti, like it or not, with the money from the last bribe he had taken he bought the house, selling the house where he lived before and pooling the money from the bribe with that of the house he had sold. Certainly that money had not gone to the party (“of course!”, He repeats and exclaims it ed) because there was documentary proof of where they ended up”.

Davigo concludes with what can be defined as the emblematic episode of the events that intertwine the history of the Democratic Party of the Left (former Communist Party) of those years with that of Tangentopoli: “Gardini brought a billion lire to Botteghe oscure (old headquarters of the Communist Party ed.). The only three who knew who the earner was were: the earner, Gardini who committed suicide and Cusani who never wanted to talk. So what does Pellegrino want from us instead of talking about Parenti, who not by chance has left the judiciary?”.