What the newspapers say about Draghi’s decision to torpedo the head of the Department coordinating the Services, Gennaro Vecchione, with Elisabetta Belloni
In the chronicles of the turnover just ordered by Mario Draghi at the top of the secret services between the removed prefect Gennaro Vecchione and the ambassador Elisabetta Belloni, former secretariat of the Foreign Ministry, there is not a word – I say one – of Giuseppe Conte to justify of the “anger”, of the “slap received” and more that the headlines have attributed to him. The former prime minister remained silent, wrapped up in all the problems that he has at the elusive head of the even more elusive 5 Star Movement entrusted to him by Beppe Grillo, with all the judicial problems in the meantime increased due to the resistance of Davide Casaleggio even to deliver the elected of the members. In place of him,
But the anger – I repeat – of Conte is somehow accredited by the way in which a newspaper like Il Fatto Quotidiano represented the operation just carried out by Draghi on the front page: “The favor to 2 Matteo”, that is Renzi and Salvini, both indeed enthusiastic. “He has revived the League”, Marco Travaglio’s newspaper insisted, underlining that at the Dis – acronym of the Department of Information for Security – “Mancini remains and Vecchione jumps”.
Mancini and that service manager – Marco – filmed last Christmas with Renzi in the square of a motorway restaurant while the crisis of the second Conte government was maturing, also as a result of the accusations that Renzi himself addressed to the prime minister still in charge of managing too well his, so to speak, the secret services having at his disposal his friend the prefect Vecchione, general of the Guardia di Finanza.
Yet Mancini could not and could not be mistaken for a conspirator towards Conte if what an expert on the subject such as Carlo Bonini wrote today in Repubblica is true. According to whom the time has finally come to “recover in the Mediterranean, once again the epicenter of unpredictable new power relations”, the time lost at Palazzo Chigi going after “Marco Mancini, to hunt down political infidelities in the apparatuses rather than dealing with what the hell Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyp Erdogan had in mind about Libya ”, so important for Italian interests.
Severo in the Corriere della Sera was also Giovanni Bianconi, writing of Conte’s relationship with Vecchione as “direct and constant”, aggravated by the “failure to appoint the authority delegated to services until the last days of his stay at Palazzo Chigi”. Thus ends “an unfortunate season – to return to Bonini on Repubblica – of which Conte had been the obstinate and clumsy director: the one that had confused the government of Intelligence, of its capital of confidential information, with a round of appointments in municipalized, in a logic of occupation calibrated on friendly loyalty to the government leader ”. Il Foglio finally writes about “the end of the season of poisons”, commenting on the exit from “Piazza Dante”, the headquarters of the secret services, of “Gennaro Vecchione, very friend of Giuseppi”,
