The municipal councilor of Villorba has a national role: “I ask for clarity from the leaders of the movement”
TREVISO. “I felt embarrassed when I saw the video: I ask that it be clarified by the top management.”
The Treviso-born Raffaella Andreola, a member of the national board of arbitrators of the 5 Star Movement and municipal councilor in Villorba, lashes out against Beppe Grillo for the video in which she defended her son Ciro, investigated together with three other people by the Temple prosecutor’s office. Pausanias for group sexual violence against a peer met on vacation.
Grillo, in his excited video message, took it out on the girl he reported 8 days after the alleged rape, and spoke of a video that would clearly show that there was no sexual violence.
“Given that I consider it a personal matter of Beppe Grillo and as such it had to be managed avoiding the” politicization “of the case”, said Raffella Andreola in an interview with the beraking latest news agency, “as a member of the Board of Arbitrators I can say that I felt embarrassed by what I saw in that video ». However, the college cannot take measures against the guarantor of the 5 Star Movement “.
“Not so much because his business was in fact frozen after the expulsions against those who did not vote for the Draghi government, but because Grillo, albeit a guarantor of the M5s, is not registered on the Rousseau platform. However, it remains that in principle Andreola he would think otherwise. “If I am called to enforce the regulation and statute, in this case I should ask myself if respect for the individual and the independence of the judicial bodies are values to be respected for the Movement. From my point of view, yes”, continues Andreola .
“As a woman, I ask for respect for every woman, for her freedom and her dignity. As a citizen I ask that justice take its course in a free and autonomous way without external pressure ». Andreola does not want Grillo’s video message to fall into oblivion, “as a member of the College, I ask that the top management clarify – even if I wonder which ones at the moment – on these public statements made by the guarantor, in order to clarify the position of the Movement that should not have been absolutely involved in this affair ».
A position that of Andreola which, however, is not necessarily shared by the rest of the disciplinary college, which also includes the Minister for Youth Policies Fabiana Dadone, who rose to the headlines for her photo with red shoes above the desk “I don’t know what you think of Grillo’s video, I haven’t heard from it since February”. But the words of the councilor from Villorba are symptomatic of the difficulties that the 5-star Movement is going through in this phase, orphaned of a clear guide and consequently of a line. The change of government brought the M5s into a pocket, from which it struggles to get out. And Grillo’s video certainly did not help to compact the ranks of the pentastellato movement. –