Moro: Giovanardi, ‘Persichetti? Surreal 40 years from facts researcher risks process’

“It is surreal that more than 40 years after the facts, any researcher who makes public documents again subject to secrecy risks criminal proceedings”. This was told to AdnKronos by former senator Carlo Giovanardi, former member of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Moro case, commenting on the investigation of the Rome prosecutor’s office on the former Br, now a historical researcher, Paolo Persichetti, accused of subversive association aimed to terrorism and aiding and abetting. Investigation centered on the disclosure of confidential material “acquired and / or processed by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro”, reads the decree signed by the substitute Eugenio Albamonte. “June 27 will be the 41st anniversary of the Ustica massacre – observes Giovanardi – and the shocking papers on the Palestinians’ threats against Italy are not yet known. I was able to read them as a member of the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Moro, but if I made them public I would be indicted “. And so, explains Giovanardi,” Purgatori and Bonfietti can continue to tell cosmic lies about Ustica, but historians, journalists and researchers cannot, after 41 years, know the cards. which the state secret has been removed, otherwise I would not have been able to see them either, but they have been classified as ‘secret’ and ‘top secret’ “. “When on June 30 last year I met the then director of Dis Gennaro Vecchione at Palazzo Chigi – underlines Giovanardi -, he reminded me that, for reasons of national interest, even after 40 years the correspondence of the Palestinians of ’79 – ‘ 80 had to remain covered. I pointed out that it was understandable for some documents, but I asked how it was possible to keep those papers classified as ‘secret’ and ‘top secret’ while Purgatori and Bonfietti can tell what they want against the military, against the Americans, against the French and on the imaginative air battle. It is surreal – Giovanardi concludes – that after more than 40 years, in a country like Italy, scholars and historians cannot go and verify the sources “.