“Have I done my best to stop the mafia infiltration? I don't know if I could have done more, I put all my effort into it.” Antonio Decaro, the mayor of Bari, explains his reasons, after strongly criticizing Minister Piantedosi's choice to send a commission of access to the capital of Puglia to check possible criminal infiltrations in the administration and assess the dissolution of the municipal council. The decision was taken after the arrest of 130 people as part of an investigation carried out by the DDA of Bari which revealed an alleged link with the mafia and politics in the exchange of votes in the 2019 municipal elections. The center-left described the ministerial initiative as very serious, suggesting that it is a attempt to influence the municipal elections in June. “I filed 18 complaints, for example I did not let the son of the boss Parisi sing, the same one who sang on New Year's Eve when he administered the center-right “, claims the mayor about A sweep on La7, “I became a civil party 19 times”. And he admits what it meant to participate in the hearings, face to face with the people he had invited to denounce: “I arrived with the tricolor scarf inside the Bitonto bunker courtroom and when I entered, I went to sit next to the prosecutor. “As I had invited the entrepreneurs to denounce the clan that was carrying out the extortion,” Decaro remembers, “all the arrested members of the Parisi clan banged their fists on the bars inside the courtroom. This wasn't very simple. I'm also afraid in life, I'm not a superhero and the blindfold doesn't give me superpowers.” And he adds: “However, it reminds me that I took an oath on the Constitution and therefore I cannot turn my head the other way or lower it. But I have to react because I am the mayor of the city. »
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