The Senate says yes to the arrest of Caridi. And now the MP ends up in jail – L’Espresso

And now for Antonio Caridi open the prison doors. After two troubled days, between delays and twists, attempts to throw the ball into the stands, threats and insults, at the last minute before the holidays the House of Senate votes in favor of the arrest of the Parliamentary Gal (leader of Forza Italy in Calabria), accused by the anti-mafia prosecutor in Reggio Calabria to be a part of the component reserved by the ‘Ndrangheta. This is the result, not coincidentally, just the determination of a former magistrate Pietro Grasso. He is the President of the Senate, in fact, that – to overcome the melina which aimed to postpone the issue until September – early morning announces its intention to reverse the order of the day and vote the arrest of Senator before publishing reform , as per the schedule.

He returned in his faculties, but obviously deluged with criticism. Forza Italy, not too subtly, the reproaches of an unspecified disloyalty and wait for the detention request a ruling the court of Review. The verdiniani even accuse him of “undermine democracy.” It does not take it well off even the Democratic Party, which is confined to “taking note” of the decision without much enthusiasm. Not by chance are the grillini the only ones to clap Grease, with which even the disagreements in the past there have been.

The fact is that the move of the horse of the Senate President has cornered its own Democrats, who with five stars, Sel and the League have on paper the numbers to grant permission to proceed. Instead it spreads the fear that the “force”, as it considers more than one, at the end end up favoring Caridi: the center begins to circulate the intention of lacking a quorum, the uncertainty arising from the secret ballot ago the rest.

meanwhile tempers run hot, between daring comparisons between Giacomo Matteotti and Enzo Tortora, smart quotations (the arrest of the Girondins deputies during the French Revolution) and mocking signs of handcuffs in the direction of Caridi, made by some pentastellati while he speaks. The individual concerned, for its part, defends, proclaims himself innocent, defines the charge of criminal association “shocking and unjust”: “I never had sex or entered into pacts with organized crime, I have never taken part in secret organizations or in Masonic lodges, I have never sold out my role. ” Then the motion of the affections: “I commend to your consciousness of the Senate parliamentary integrity even before my liberty.”

But in the end the House condemns it. And, as with excess ironically the Five Star, the coveted summer will spend the cool of the prison instead of the cool sea.