Rome prosecutors on Monday requested
that a probe into Justice Undersecretary Andrea Delmastro delle
Vedove related to revelations made in parliament about the case
of jailed anarchist Alfredo Cospito by Giovanni Donzelli, a
fellow MP for Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI)
party, be shelved.
The case regarded an alleged the breach of secrecy rules as
Delmastro, who is also Donzelli's flat mate, was the source of
the information his fellow MP disclosed in parliament.
Donzelli revealed that Cospito, who has been on hunger strike at
the time to protest against the tough 41 bis jail regime he is
being held under, had talked to mafia bosses about getting the
41 bis abolished.
The jail regime is usually reserved for mafiosi.
He also revealed that four lawmakers from the opposition,
centre-left Democratic Party (PD) had visited in jail Cospito,
who last month ended the hunger strike.
During the debate Donzelli, a member of the Copasir
parliamentary committee that oversees Italy's intelligence
services, asked whether the PD was on the side of the State or
that of the mafia and terrorists, sparking indignation from the
opposition.
Delmastro subsequently fuelled the row by saying that the PD
lawmakers had given in to Cospito's demand that they meet other
people being held under the 41 bis, including two mafia bosses,
as a condition for the encounter with him.
Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said that the information was not
classified.
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