Photo Francesco Curridori (from il Giornale)
Investigations into cooperatives are expanding. For Lady Soumahoro “60 million business with public funding”
The investigations into the cooperatives are widening, also involving the family of deputy Aboubakar Soumahoro. According to what Corriere della Sera writes, “the accounts are sifted, the millionaire credit lines received in the last 4 years for the reception of refugees and perhaps distracted elsewhere. There is talk of huge loans out of competition. But the unheeded alarms about the hygienic conditions in which the migrants were kept are not ignored. And in particular the minors who, often deprived of the per diem, were left to work without a contract outside the structure, at the time when they should have gone to school”.
The Messenger makes the figures: “Lto Marie Therese Mukamitsindo herselfSoumahoro’s mother-in-law, in a report delivered to the Ministry of the Interior as part of the Amfi project, had declared that Karibu in twenty years of activity had managed public funds for a total sum which exceeds 60 million euros. The last assignment is the one published in the Official Gazette last June which attested the award in March 2022 of the Framework Agreement tender with several economic operators, for the duration of n. 2 years, for the assignment of the management services of reception centers made up of single housing units with accommodation capacity up to 50 places, for an assumed need for places equal to n. 800″.
According to Il Messaggero, “the Aid Consortium, in the last budget filed – that of 2020 – had highlighted revenues of 639 thousand euros from the prefecture of Latina alone for the reception projects financed by the Ministry of the Interior”.
Lega Braccianti and Roman villa: new controversies
The villa purchased by Soumahoro and his wife for about 450 thousand euros is also controversial. Il Giornale publishes photos of the house, located in Casal Palocco, southern suburbs of Rome, interviewing several neighbors who only at this juncture discovered that the deputy lived there. For the past few days, however, the blinds have remained down and no one has been seen. Those who continue to provide details on the story is Soumaila Sambare, former partner of Soumahoro in the Lega Braccianti, who denied to “Striscia la Notizia” that he had asked, in the form of a salary, the money from donations to the association. “It’s a lie, we never did it. We just asked him to put part of it into a current account from which we could draw for the problems of the ghetto, without having to wait every time for him to get off Rome”.
“He approved, he told us he would load the money onto a card, but he never did.” “With that money Aboubakar paid the laborers who posed for selfies which he then posted. He gave him 50 euros telling him not to go to work, but to wait for him to take pictures. And to organize the protest in Torretta, Antonacci had recruited some migrants from Borgo Mezzanone”.
Clash in the Italian Left. And Bonelli downloads it
But in the meantime the affair is also taking on the characteristics of a political clash on the left. Corriere della Sera reports: «Those who chose to nominate him must assume full political responsibility for what was foreseeable to happen and has happened» write the leaders of the Italian Left Edoardo Biancardi, Stefano Ciccone, Elena Fattori, Sandro Fucito, Claudio Grassi, Alessia Petraglia, Serena Pillozzi, Antonio Placido and Silvia Prodi. They have it in for Nicola Fratoianni. But he goes straight: «Aboubakar was a symbol. That a part of the internal minority uses this issue deserves no comment”.
It was to download it Angelo Bonelli. “Disturbed, embittered, deeply wounded from the point of view, more than political, human for this story”. Thus, in an interview with Radio Popolare, Angelo Bonelli describes himself, leader of the Greens, who together with the Italian Left had nominated Aboubakar Soumahoro in the general elections. “The answers given by Soumahoro are not sufficient at the moment, he should be the first to give more complete answers, which he didn’t do, we said what we had to tell him, we accepted his self-suspension”, says Bonelli who sees an even more serious problem in the risk that some battles, such as the one against the exploitation of migrants, will lose credibility: “It is a serious problem, serious reflection must be made, we have a situation in which the rights of migrants are increasingly trampled upon and those who have always led a battle, I am referring to the right, to corner them with unacceptable reasons, are now using this story in a specular way, on which we must open a reflection. For this, Bonelli continues, Soumahoro should be the first to give answers that he has not given so far ”.
When asked whether, in the light of what has happened, it is not a mistake for the parties to nominate people they represent with their history of civil battles, the leader of the Greens answers no: “They are important candidates, politics must give a representation of those worlds that someone in various capacities calls civil society, the political history of the Italian Parliament is full of important cases of personalities symbol of battles for civil and cultural rights. The theme is that there should be, and here there hasn’t been, a sincere communication from those who are candidates to say I have a problem of this kind, rate yourself. This has not happened – continues Bonelli – it is a question that does not pertain to the judicial process, it is a question that pertains to politics and to a community that is making you a candidacy proposal. If I had a wife who owns a company that operates in renewable energies and she were investigated because she corrupted the Ministry of the Environment and I am the leader of the Greens, I have a duty to tell the party that wants to nominate me that I have this problem, for compared to a community that proposed your name. What I feel deeply hurt about is precisely this, hurt, more than from a political, human point of view, because one fails to say everything. I can’t believe the wife doesn’t talk to the husband about this.”
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