Today I have written a letter to the President of the Council, Prodi, the Minister of Justice, Mastella and to the Under Secretary to the President of the Council, Letta to solicit a discussion within the majority and in the government about the issue of Abu Omar.
Before the Minister of Justice speaks to Parliament and before taking relevant decisions, in fact, I find it necessary to clear things up within the executive on the issues of the abduction of Abu Omar, the related requests of the Milan prosecutor and the issue of the true collaboration between the Government and the magistracy.
In fact the government has waited too long to give a response to the Milan prosecutors in relation to their request for extradition of the 26 CIA agents involved in the abduction of Abu Omar, who was abducted and then tortured.
I am part of this government and I don’t want Italian citizens to think that there is continuity between the Berlusconi government and the Prodi government.
Furthermore, the recourse to “State secrets” talked about by the executive, has nothing to do with the extradition request.
To clear up all these issues I have asked the Premier, the Minister of Justice and the Under Secretary to have a frank discussion among colleagues, to underline the true discontinuity as regards the topic of justice between the current executive and the previous one.