“The newspaper ‘Il Fatto Quotidiano‘, in its edition today, has outdone itself in the definitive distortion of facts. The headline ‘Italy at war without telling Italians and the Quirinale’ is false, offensive, misleading, and very serious for the dignity of my office, my oath as Minister, as well as for the Head of State, the Armed Forces, and the citizens. Italy is not at war. Parliament has not been ‘excluded’ from anything. The Quirinale has not been kept in the dark about anything.” Thus said the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto.
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“The Italian military presence in Saudi Arabia – notes Travaglio – has never been ‘secret’. It would have been enough to consult the acts of Parliament, where I have gone several times, as well as where the Chief of Staff, the Commander of Covi, the Foreign Minister, the Undersecretaries of Defense have also gone, providing all the necessary and due information regarding this specific mission. And I did not ‘downplay’ the attack on our Eurofighter: I followed it personally, communicated it, and requested operational assessments on the safety of our personnel. I did this day and night, following every development of the attack and personally always checking on the conditions of our military.”
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“The Fact – continues the minister – is only pretending to create a ‘case’ that does not exist: mixing data here and there, different missions and decisions taken according to precise and regular procedures, mixing them and constructing a political story that those facts do not demonstrate.” “Finally, regarding the ships in the Red Sea – he emphasizes addressing the director of Il Fatto – one thing should be remembered: Mr. Travaglio, Guido Crosetto neither has nor owns ships. Not even a dinghy. The ships belong to the Italian Republic and the Navy and operate within Aspides, a European Union mission, with a very specific mandate on which I wrote an open and urgent letter to High Commissioner Kallas, released everywhere yesterday, but which you did not even bother to read. Defense is not, nor will it ever be, a minister’s toy. It is a State Institution, which can only operate within laws, mandates, procedures, and precise, defined responsibilities, which always and in any case go through Parliament and which only Parliament can authorize respecting laws and the Constitution.”
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“You can criticize the Government. You can criticize the Minister. It is the salt of democracy. But – Crosetto points out – telling Italians that the Minister and the Government secretly took them to war, keeping Parliament and the Quirinale out, without proving it with a single fact, is not criticism. It is political distortion. And this time I will not let it pass and will not pretend indifference out of respect for the Republic, the Constitution, and the Italians.”
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