“He has disappeared, we don’t see him anymore” –

Rita Cavallaro

03 maggio 2024

Piero Fassino, formally investigated for theft, has disappeared from circulation. Since he ended up in the newspapers with the accusation of having stolen a perfume at Fiumicino airport, the dem deputy has deserted all his appointments in Montecitorio, locked himself in his house and doesn’t even respond to his friends from the Democratic Party. «He disappeared, he never shows up once more», they say. There is embarrassment in Elly Schlein’s party, which avoids commenting on the legal matter. Those who find themselves forced to say a few words regarding the case say they are incredulous regarding those accusations. «I have known Piero for many years and I absolutely cannot believe this. It must certainly be the result of a big misunderstanding and I expect that in the end it will turn out that I was right”, said the European candidate for the Democratic Party Alessia Morani, on Un giorno da pecora, on Rai Radio1. Yet once morest Fassino there are videos that show him slipping a Chanel Change into his pocket, as well as the statements of six people, including clerks and security workers at the terminal’s duty free, put in black and white in the information that Polaria handed over Alessandro Gentile to the Civitavecchia prosecutor, following which the magistrate formally entered the Turin deputy in the register of suspects.

“As a defense we have not yet received the documents, when we receive them we will evaluate how to proceed”, said the lawyer Fulvio Gianaria, Fassino’s defender, who hopes the crime is light. However, a sort of recidivism weighs once morest the former Keeper of the Seals, who should be heard in the next few days, as emerged from the testimonies, due to two precedents that occurred at the same duty free before 15 April, the day on which Fassino was allegedly stopped and reported with the bottle of eau de toilette in your pocket. The witnesses have put on record that the deputy was already in the sights of security, given that during the Christmas period he would have taken away a perfume, disappearing into the crowd, and another Chanel would have attempted to steal it on March 27, but would have discovered it paid. In the last raid the security cornered him, thanks also to the cameras, which film Fassino while he looks around and slips the bottle into his pocket.