Clemente Mastella Threatens Legal Action Against Carlo Calenda for Mafia Culture Allegations

“Mastella associated with the culture of the mafia? I have instructed to sue Carlo Calenda. This spoiled little boy from Rome playing the media bully cannot afford to associate my name and my political history with the mafia. While he was playing the mama's boy, I fought organized crime without discounts, as Minister of Justice. Calenda understands nothing about politics, but I did not think he was also a master of rude and defamatory mockery. We will see each other in court,” so the mayor of Benevento, Clemente Mastella, responds to journalists who asked him to comment on Carlo Calenda's post regarding the composition of Renzi's lists with Emma Bonino, in which the leader of Azione writes: “It makes no sense to bring along, even through another person, Cuffaro, Cesaro, and Mastella. The culture of the mafia is the opposite of European values.” “If Calenda studied instead of being a social hater - Mastella adds, who is also the leader of Noi di Centro - he would know that as a Catholic I have been the author and direct protagonist of historic battles dear to the radical culture. Taking the lesson from John Paul II, as Guardasigilli I was the promoter of the last pardon that was carried out in Italy. I announced it at Regina Coeli on June 2, 2006, in the prison where De Gasperi had also been imprisoned, with my daughter Maria Romana by my side, to underline the connection between secular solidarity and charitable Catholicism. And to the condition of the prisons, my wife and I have always dedicated attention and energy, as the Radicals have indeed always done.” “Renzi has miraculously given the little boy from Rome important positions such as that of Ambassador and minister, taking him from the anonymity he was destined for. Calenda repaid Renzi with perfidy and ingratitude. For me, he remains the little boy to whom I entrusted my reports for the Cis of Nola: he said he would sue me but he did not, because it is the truth. This time the intercession of a common lawyer friend who asked me insistently to withdraw the lawsuit will not be enough, I have the duty to carry it forward and will not back down an inch out of respect for my family, my ethics, and my voters,” concludes Mastella.