Cossiga, when the Police surrounded the CSM. Velino
POL - Cossiga, when the Police surrounded the CSM.
Rome, Aug 18 (Il Velino) - The first time I made the phone call from Espresso Battery Interior Ministry, which was February or March of '68, and I Scalfari and had just been convicted by the Court of Rome for defaming General Giovanni De Lorenzo giving it an attempt to subvert the "Piano Solo". After the ruling, published Espresso Scalfari had a hard open letter to the Prime Minister Aldo Moro, accusing him of having hidden the truth 'by deleting the 71 courts omitted investigation of general complaints Manes. Francesco Cossiga was undersecretary of defense and the phone was dry and pungent: "You need to tell it is wrong to blame Scalfari Moro. The omission I put them I, Moro understands nothing of these matters, and had been for him, he would put in place the most sensitive secrets of the Republic". A year later, in the meantime I Scalfari and we were elected to Parliament, and was set up the Committee of Inquiry on the events of the summer of '64 Cossiga was to dine with me, by way of the Cross, and boasted twice: "I put them, the omission, when I sent the report to the court Manes, and I've removed them, now that I have sent the report to the committee. But this will not help in explaining to you and Scalfari. In fact, the majority report of the committee treated us very well, filling them with praise for the quality of our great journalists, but essentially confirmed the acquittal of De Lorenzo. Cossiga And he never changed his mind.
During his seventy-seventh birthday, in July 2005 when I interviewed him and announced that from 1 January 2006 he would retire from politics and made a quick assessment of fifty years, I asked him: "If a journalist resumption and re-launch Today the famous survey of forty years ago on 'coup' of General De Lorenzo, back down the field to defend the general and then-President Antonio Segni, his countryman and master? ". He said, 'Sure, and accuse the journalist of having invented everything ... This does not prevent me to become his friend and stay for forty years, and lifting myself to speak in the Senate, enjoying the solidarity of all sectors, in his defense, when they wanted to shut down its criticism to the professionals of the sacrosanct ' mafia .... "On this occasion, Cossiga did more. When I was condemned and the Probate Court decided that I should spend two years in prison and four months, he rented a plane to pick me up in Paris, where I was for a meeting of the Council of Europe: "I carry to Rome and I'll take you up to Regina Coeli ...." I was not excited about the generous offer, and luckily I took plenty of grace given to me by President Ciampi, just in time. His last year at the Quirinale, called me at seven in the morning because I went to breakfast with him and, usually, I anticipate his "picks".
Like the time he had to go to the Palace of the Marshals to preside over the CSM and I recited while he shaved, the speech would have to pm. The Council had placed on the agenda a "complaint" to the President of the Council of Ministers, which was Craxi, who was allowed to criticize judges who had not sufficiently investigated the assassination of journalist Tobago. Cossiga took the delegation to chair the meeting of the CSM and the vice president predicted that he would go. As he shaved, he sent the commander of the carabinieri Quirinal and ordered him to precede and "surround" with his men to the Palace of the Marshals and "be ready to respond" if, after his speech, the Council had not removed from the agenda the threatened censorship Craxi. Cossiga had it all, and sent him to say, but had it especially with the judges. Eleven years after the time of the police to the CSM, he repassed before the mirror, always making his beard, the speech that he would resign from the Senate to a senator for life "to criticize the government of Silvio Berlusconi, to argue so much with words judges and to promise to continuously predict and justice reforms, but in practice unable to conclude anything abnormal while the power of the judiciary and its encroachment on the powers of the government and Parliament did nothing but increase. And often, even recently, I remembered that I had organized a dinner at my house between him and Silvio Berlusconi, a few months before the Knight officially announced its descent into the field. All through dinner he simply recommended Cossiga: "Politics and 'a damn thing seriously, he said, and not' for you, will make it to pieces ...." Berlusconi looked at him smiling and friendly, but you knew that already decided and that did not take any account of its advice. When
, 27 November 2007, introduced in the Senate really resigned as senator for life, Cossiga, rather than with the judges, if taken with "shady characters that the police chief Gianni De Gennaro called" calling him "a man insincere, hypocritical, false," and "a cynical and ambiguous character who unscrupulously use the his influence: "A man who is' free from the past abettor American FBI, which is' free from the past tragedy of Genoa, and 'passed unscathed after having packed the poisoned dumpling that led to the resignation of Interior Minister .... " Seventy days passed without anyone, starting with the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Giuliano Amato that it was, would respond publicly to Cossiga, until 31 January 2007, the Senate began the agenda and the resignation of Senator Cossiga resigned to life rose from his desk in the classroom, the table of fees, and said: "Only yesterday the Minister responded in writing and I think he is, he knows, has told the truth. Due to the contents of the response of the Minister consider it my duty to ask political and moral publicly and formally apologized to the prefect Gianni De Gennaro to the harsh criticism or accusations against him several times by me in this' classroom and outside this House. " He then confirmed his resignation, which was rejected by a majority. But nobody has ever heard since then that it was written in that mysterious letter from the Minister of the Interior, and which led Cossiga to make his apologies to De Gennaro. Among the many mysteries, real or supposed, that Francesco Cossiga would have resulted in the grave, and that 'the last, and it' perhaps the most disturbing. To me, that I asked, he replied: "I can only say that what I wrote Amato and 'more' serious and shocking of all that I reproached De Gennaro." The last time I was at his house to ask him to say something about Giulio Andreotti, a brief contribution to be included in an interview with RAI, in the "Big", the former prime minister, and said more good than harm . We intend to interview him too, for the same program. We have not had time.
(Lino Jannuzzi) August 18, 2010 19:09
