Newly elected parliamentary
anti-mafia commission chair Chiara Colosimo said Tuesday she was
not friends with a former NAR rightist militant serving 30 years
for the 1980 Bologna bombing, although she did admit knowing him
in her capacity as a former regional councillor who had talked
to him, like many other officials, because he is a member of an
association dealing with the social reintegration of former
prisoners.
"I do not have friendships. I simply carried out, as part of my
duties as regional councillor, what was granted me and was due
and that is also meeting people who have been or are detained,"
she said.
"I know the alleged Ciavardini, exactly as I know very many
others elected in other parties, because he is in an association
that deals, as per Article 27 of the Constitution, with the
reinsertion of other detainees after they have served their
terms."
Colosimo, a member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing
Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, was elected anti-mafia commission
chair with only government votes as the opposition parties
boycotted the vote after terror victims relatives called on all
parties not to vote for her due to her alleged links with
Ciavardini.
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