A brief follow up to Saturday’s post in support of Emergency is due as the three Italians - Marco Garatti, Matteo Dell'Aira e Matteo Pagani - arrested on charges of involvement in a terror plot to assassinate the governor of Helmand, Gulab Mangal, were released yesterday and declared “not guilty”.
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini stated they were released on the basis of an agreement between the Italian and Afghan governments and that Italian authorities will investigate further in case new elements emerge.
Five out of the six Afghans arrested were also released while one of them remains in jail, suspected of having hidden the weapons in the Lashkar-Gah hospital.
While the odyssey that involved the three Emergency collaborators is over, doubts and questions remain about why there was this attempt at framing the Italian NGO and who’s behind it.
In a press conference organised yesterday, while hypocritical Under Secretary to the Council of Ministers Gianni Letta claimed the Italian government had scored in this mission another victory (as if this was a football match...), Frattini highlighted how important it was for the Italian government (that first doubted Emergency’s innocence and demanded to know the truth about its involvement in the case…) to maintain its diplomacy throughout the investigations, reminding us that the Emergency operators
spent the last two days in a new structure in Kabul, a guest house, and not in a jail. The
Minister forgot to tell us if the guest house also had free Wi-Fi in its
rooms.
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