"Accusing my father of possible involvement in a murder or of having relations with the mafia is a slap in the face to his memory and his history." The son of 7-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Stefano, says he is "saddened by the words" of Rita Dalla Chiesa on the possible involvement of the DC statesman in the killing of General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa with whom, he assured ANSA, he had "a relationship of great esteem."

An estimate that only yesterday the daughter of the general assassinated in Palermo in 1982 - the blue parliamentarian, Rita - absolutely excluded: "I have always thought it was a political murder" she said during the TV show 'Tango' adding that she was certain that her father "was killed to do someone a favor". Who? "A politician", the answer without names, but with an identikit that was difficult not to recognize, especially if shortly thereafter also her brother Nando, writer, sociologist and former parliamentarian, confirmed the traits: "There is also the possible measure of what can be said - he had in fact observed - and people must not lose the intelligence to understand".

Only mud, the old Christian Democrat guard sharply replies : yesterday Gianfranco Rotondi who also promised legal action against Rita Dalla Chiesa (something instead excluded by the son of the DC statesman), today Carlo Giovanardi who instead points the finger at the «barbaric way of doing journalism, built on the skin of those who can no longer defend themselves and always aimed at besmirching the great history of the DC».

Andreotti's son's position was measured and courteous, saying he was "saddened" by the accusations : "Every now and then the daughter" of General Dalla Chiesa "says these things. I don't know why, but it's nothing new. I understand humanly that when a parent is killed in such a cruel way, it's something that affects you forever and indelibly. But his accusations are things based on nothing". "And this hurts me - he reiterates - because it means that the many years that have passed have not been enough, nor the trials he has been subjected to, nor the hearings in which he has repeatedly explained the truth of the facts".

But there are also the "sentences that speak . One can also say that sentences are a waste of time, but in those of Palermo and Perugia - observes Stefano Andreotti - it was categorically excluded that my father had any involvement in the death of General Dalla Chiesa ". A man, "who had with my father "a relationship of great esteem. An esteem that I underline was mutual". And then, he concludes, "he had sworn before God" that he was totally extraneous to these facts, "and for a believer like him an oath was sacred".

(Online Union)

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