Mafia Capitale, Buzzi: “Alemanno and I victims, they should apologize”

“I was hoping so much in Alemanno’s acquittal. He lived seven years of nightmare for nonsense. I know very well, in my heart, that I have not corrupted him. Absolutely! I have explained it in every way, I have explained it in the interrogations in the prosecutor’s office, at the trial. Yet for this story of Alemanno I don’t even have the generic extenuating circumstances. They told me I couldn’t have them because I protected him. But now, faced with Alemanno’s acquittal, someone should apologize. Or not? “. Thus at the Adnkronos, after the acquittal in Cassation of the former mayor of Rome from the accusation of corruption, the former ‘ras’ of the Salvatore Buzzi cooperatives, together with the former Nar Massimo Carminati, the main defendant in the ‘Mafia Capitale’ trial, both convicted but for which the Supreme Court excluded the mafia association. Buzzi disputes at the root the accusation of the magistrates who painted a picture of inextricable relations between him and the then mayor of Rome, and accuses the prosecutors of illogicality: “They accused me of protecting Alemanno – he observes -, but I, before my arrest , I must have met him three or four times. Why should I have protected him? There is no logic, there is no sense. And even when Cantone, who was president of Anac, came to the trial, it emerged that absolutely I had no no monopoly in the Municipality of Rome. But the prosecutors stubbornly went against all logic with the thesis of enslavement. But I also demonstrated against Alemanno, because the Municipality did not pay us legitimate and never contested credits. But if he was enslaved, Was I going to demonstrate against the mayor? The prosecutors acted against logic “. Yet, despite the accusation of mafia association has now definitively fallen, in the collective imagination of many, Rome is the city that for years has been in the hands of criminals mafia. A feeling for which Buzzi assumes no responsibility: “Pignatone should apologize, not only to Alemanno, but to all of us and to all the Romans, because the mafia was not there and we always won. We were the Frosinone who played a game against Real Madrid in Madrid and with the referee on their side, and we managed to draw. We, on the thesis that it was not the mafia, we had as witnesses in favor, cited by us and not by the prosecutors, Sabella, Cantone and the colonel of the carabinieri who carried out the investigations. The prosecutors did not bring any witness able to say that he had been intimidated by Buzzi or by Carminati about the public administration. Nothing, nobody. Yet they went against all logic with stubbornness “. Buzzi was in prison for 5 years and 7 months, in the High Security department. A long period to think and understand if there were reasons to repent or feel a victim of something or someone: “I feel a victim – he says -, but the victim of an investigation that wanted to hit Alemanno and the right and it happened to him in the middle I like cheese on macaroni. Me and Carminati, because even his crimes are insignificant. He and I were like cheese on macaroni in an investigation started to hit the right, because they had left with Alemanno, Mancini and Panzironi. But I have to apologize for one thing, for having paid 65 thousand euros in bribes but on a turnover of 180 million, and I became the great corrupter. I was good, I paid very little. Parnasi is charged with 200 thousand euros, to understand. Then, of course, there is the world of ‘beautiful souls’ who say that you don’t have to pay, but when you are an entrepreneur you have to collect, and paying 65 thousand euros in bribes on 180 million of turnover … I was good. I regret having done so “. But n It is not only this that Buzzi regrets: “I would no longer make an agreement with Carminati – he confesses -, because Massimo was carrying his legal misfortunes with him and together they killed us. If I hadn’t met him, and he me, there would have been no such investigation, there would have been no reason to conduct it. “Investigation that for years earned Buzzi the accusation of mafia, carried out by the Rome prosecutor’s office until in the end, a tenacity in the face of which Buzzi at AdnKronos says he has always reacted in only one way: “I am a Sagittarius ascending scorpio – he says -, I exalt myself in difficulties. That accusation provoked within me the determination to dismantle it. But the impact of the investigation was enormous. I was rich and I became poor, they seized all my assets as a mafia member despite the acquittal from the mafia charge. They hijacked the cooperatives making them go bankrupt, 1,260 people ended up walking around. These are the collateral damage of this investigation, apart from the jail we made and the discredit on the city of Rome “. Dark years for Buzzi, those of ‘Mafia Capitale’, years in which he felt betrayed:” I felt betrayed only by my cooperative mates – he says -, they could defend me more, however, as Manzoni said, if one does not have the courage, he cannot give it. “One day, who knows, maybe Buzzi will have the opportunity to meet them the magistrates who portrayed him as a mafia. “If it happened – he says -, I certainly wouldn’t insult them, I would easily explain to them where they went wrong. I look forward, not backward. Looking back makes you feel bitter. And then, all in all, I’m still alive and I have a nice family. “And if not the magistrates, Buzzi could, sooner or later, meet Alemanno in the streets of Rome:” I’d take him to a pizzeria, to chat about the nightmare that we spent. We are both victims. “