5 August 2008

Calumny is back

”There’s something new today in the air, in fact something ancient” I recalled only a few days ago, giving a timely warning of the risks of delegitimisation that the Pescara magistrates are suffering.

It’s not as though, in relation to myself they have done or are doing differently. Perhaps someone will have already noticed: they are putting together a new poison campaign about myself and about Italia dei Valori and the prime mover is "Il Giornale" (the family newspaper to be clear) that today is shooting real high, so much so that it will be taken to the Tribunal. Last week, an innocent birthday party, at which I participated together with so many others, was transformed into a fantastic story of lovers. Today the direct attack, inventing an inexistent connection between Italia dei Valori and my properties. In fact, not just mine, but also those that my wife has earned with her work.

To be truthful, it is an activity of “dirty information” done by many hands for which in past years many of the protagonists , even current ones, have been found guilty by the various Tribunals for defamation and/or calumny. That’s what happened in 1994 with the "dossier Gorrini" which was the context for my resignation as a prosecutor, that’s what happened in 1996 with the "dossier D'Adamo" and above all with the "Fonte Achille" dossier which led to my resignation as a Minister.

From these activities of dossier-making, I always defended myself right in the judicial locations and many protagonists of yesterday and today have had to pay mounds of money in compensation for the damages. To those of "Il Giornale" who are asking where I have obtained the money to buy some property, I respond that it has been acquired, other than with my own money and that of my wife or with mortgages, also with the money that "Il Giornale" has already had to shell out over the years for the numerous defamations carried out against me.

Soon I will put on the Internet, copies of the cheques that they have paid me, the last of which was in the last few days on behalf of two journalists of that newspaper who had unjustly accused me. Even the next apartment I will be buying with the money that they will have to pay for the umpteenth defamation of current days. Certainly, I’m not taking money from the coffers of Italia dei Valori, as they can verify by viewing the accounts published online (www.italiadeivalori.it under the heading “Bilanci e Finanze”), that are anyway in credit, to prove that no one has taken anything away.

However, the issue is different and it is completely political: why is this happening? Above all, why is it happening again? In the 1990s they wanted to exorcize the relationship of trust and the personal following that I represented as a consequence of my activity as a magistrate in the Clean Hands investigation. Now, 15 years later, now that I have managed to get the Italia dei Valori party to take off, they are trying to drain the consensus from it since our political and electoral success is creating fear.

On a personal level I am not giving up and I will once more defend myself in the appropriate setting. On a political level, it is necessary to have a reflection and to take serious action on how to go about things. In particular, with which allies, given that we are not popular with almost all the national political system.

Let us prepare ourselves for the collection of signatures for the referendum against the "Lodo Alfano": it’s the best response to those who want to stop us!

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Information