The leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, entered the Palace of Justice in Florence this morning where the preliminary hearing for the investigation into Open, the event machine that opened today, Monday 4 April, in front of the gup Sara Farini organized the Leopolda which, according to the Florentine prosecutor’s office, was exclusively functional to the political activity of Renzi and the Magic Lily, operating in fact as an articulation of the Renziano Pd (hence the accusation of illegal party financing). Renzi immediately attacked the prosecutors: “This investigation is an absolute scandal, the prosecutors have violated the Constitution,” he said on the sidelines of the trial. And he added: «I wrote a book on this case that will be released in May: it is called“ Il Mostro ”. Despite this we are here and for years we will be in this process ». Renzi is among the 11 defendants for whom the prosecutor has asked for indictment. Renzi spoke as he left the courtroom after the schedule was made and the trial was immediately updated at upcoming hearings.
The leader of Italia Viva added: «I made the president of the Council of Ministers and therefore I respect the institutions: I will also be here at the next hearings compatibly with the calendar where possible. I will be here to say very frankly that we are respecting the law while the magistrates of Florence have not respected either the Constitution or the law or the sentences of the Court of Cassation. In a few years this story will be in the manuals of judicial news as an absolute scandal ». And he concluded: “There is a high-level defense board, extraordinary lawyers, facilitated by the Supreme Court which was the first to crumble the accusatory system of the Florence prosecutor’s office.”