Former city of Rome personnel chief
Raffaele Marra said Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi lacked courage in
a wiretapped conversation with a friend last year.
"She has got no balls. So why the f**k do you let her be
mayor?" Marra said when talking about the appointment of his
brother Renato as tourism chief.
"She's acting like a princess... they have conned her".
Raggi, a member of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S), is under investigation over Renato Marra's appointment
and that of Salvatore Romeo as head of her political
secretariat.
The transcript of the wiretap was included in court
documentation for a corruption trial in which Marra, who was
arrested in December, is a defendant.
Marra is accused of receiving 370,00 euros from real estate
broker Sergio Scarpellini in 2013 to buy a house in Rome's Prati
Fiscali area.
Scarpellini is also a defendant.
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