The former premier announces a question for the gifts received by the heads of state. But the was scraper took them away with a truck
The institutional cadeaux inventory received from Giorgia Melons since he has guided the government. A news that lit a lighthouse on the “room of wonders”, on the third floor of Palazzo Chigi, reporting, neatly cataloged, the 278 gifts that Giorgia cannot keep for itself, nor give. It is the law. These are precious, exotic, kitsch or only symbolic objects. They range from the parure of Libyan jewelry to the tablet of Zelenskyfrom oriental cosmetics to Persian rugs, to the iconic statuette of the Argentine president Javier Mileidepicted with the famous electric chainsaw. Including the most flashy gift, a pair of blue python shoes with golden heel, and the famous black scarf designed by the Albanian premier Rama Edi. The provisions that regulate the matter were introduced in 2007 by the Government of Roman Brave. On 20 December a decree of the President of the Council of Ministers was issued with the aim of regulating the treatment of the so -called representative gifts received by the members of the government and their relatives. Those who exceed 300 euros of value must be delivered to the ceremonial of Palazzo Chigi and remain available to the Prime Minister. But above all, they must be inventoriati. And this is the point. To officially ask for the list of gifts, with a question, it was the deputy Francis Bonifazi of Italy Viva. Or the party founded and led by Matteo Renzithe only president of the Italian Council to have had a management of the institutional gifts described as opaque even in a civil sentence. If there is a premier who with institutional gifts has made (a lot) talking about himself is the former scraper. A list of gifts received from Renzi It exists, but it appears as incomplete. Only 15 gifts officially remained at Palazzo Chigi in 34 months of government. They range from an oil picture that came from Mozambique to a wooden holder gift of the Prime Minister Serbian to the portrait of the same Renzi given by the President of the Republic of the Congo. And then there are an aerial model of the Turkish Airlines, a bronze sculpture depicting the carabinieri in the torment. In short, really little stuff. In 2018 The truth He managed to reconstruct what would never enter that list: objects that ended up in Rignano on the Arno from Rome in the headquarters of the 6th, the family business of Renzi (a kind of basic quarter of Santa Tiziano and mom Laura). Some, according to the testimonies, would have been used to furnish the daughter’s apartment Matilde Renzi and her husband Andrea Conticiniright above the offices of the company. A witness had told one of our source that the warehouse had become a private suk where relatives and collaborators of Matteo’s parents would have taken and took away what they wanted with the consent of Santa (Christmas) Titian. They range from the cumbersome and a little improbable sculpture received from Renzi In Saudi Arabia, with gold plated palm trees, evaluated 1,000 euros to a sword of the cadets of the Modena Academy with a not negligible value. Then there was a golden ice ax, testimony of an institutional journey in the Aosta Valley. The news of the delivery is still found on a site specialized in mountaineering: «The president of the Valle d’Aosta region August Rollandin gave the premier Renzi A ice ax of gold grrivel ».
And again: a small carpet dedicated to Istanbul and an elegant Persian -style slide on the shades of blue, with the name of Iznik, the city of Anatolia known for ceramics and textile products. But there was also the filigree delivered to the former premier by the employees of the National Laboratories of the Gran Sasso, in Abruzzo, one of the four offices of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. The scientists gave the former premier a reproduction of the central rose window of the Basilica Santa Maria di Collemaggio to L’Aquila. The church was damaged by the 2009 earthquake and the restorations ended in 2017. But evidently Renzi He did not take the importance of the present. There was even a commemorative paperweight of the Malta summit on the immigration finished on the bedside table of a Tuscan pensioner. How had it arrived there? He had brought it to us Simona Sevendomestic collaborator of the elderly, who had received him from his husband, Carlo Ravasiotrusted man of the parents of Renzi and already sentenced with both in a bankruptcy trial and false invoices to 1 year and 9 months. In practice, state gifts traveled like Christmas parcels, and some had even engraved the name of Matteo above. The gifts taken away from Palazzo Chigi seemed to have entered a tour of homages out of control and of these began to go around Rignano and neighboring municipalities. The story ended up in court. Matilde Renzi and the husband caused the Truth. But the sentence was clear: Matilde and consort “have not denied that certain objects, received by the then premier Renzi As tributes of state, they were kept in a place other than the Roman caveau, namely that they were at the house of a third subject, Florentine pensioner, only because his domestic collaborator had in turn obtained from his husband, such a Mr. Ravasiowhich in turn had obtained them from a member of the family Renzi». It also emerged that Ravasioafter the articles, «he telephoned the lady (his wife, ed) so that he worked to recover objects at the retired house to return them to Titian Renzi». Matilde Renzi And the husband even provided the judge “a letter of events 6 containing a dispute of illegal disciplinary to Mr. Ravasio that with a handwritten letter admitted his responsibility ». The judge, therefore, certified that “the Signor Ravasio He had managed the objects that were in Rignano sull’Arno as their own, when they should have been in Rome, in the Caveau dedicated to their custody “. The grotesque became tragicomic when it was discovered that, once the case has been burst, in addition to the disciplinary action against Ravasioi Renzi They would order to throw away the leftovers in the garbage bins. Today it almost makes you smile that it is really Bonifazi to raise the alleged case of the gifts of the Melons (regularly preserved in Chigi waiting for destination). In fact, the parliamentarian is not only a personal friend of the former mayor, but also one of the prominent exponents of the party of Renziwhich with institutional gifts must have had more than one problem, given that in the same civil sentence it was acknowledged that an internal cognitive investigation of Palazzo Chigi had been opened “.
Galeazzo Bignamigroup leader of Fratelli d’Italia in the Chamber, caught the jump ball: «Congratulations to Giorgia Melons for transparency. We do not remember such clarity in the past. We will present a question to request that the gifts received from Renzi, Gentiloni And Countin order to evaluate whether there are anomalies in terms of the number of gifts received and above all of the value of the same with respect to the list published by Melons». TO Bignami The homologous of Italy Viva in the Senate replies, Raffaella Paita: «We will also ask that all the invoices and transfers of the Private House of the Premier are also published, committing ourselves to provide all the invoices and transfers of the private home of Renzi». But it would be better not to go to revere too much in the past. Also because, for example, Andrea Baccirenovator of the villa of Renzi in Pontessieve, former partner of Santa Tiziano and historic collaborator of Matteo, gratified with different public positions, already in 2015 a Panorama He had confessed that he had not kept any of the payment of the former premier.
