(see related story on M5S vote on Salvini's immunity).
Ex-premier and former Democratic
Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi on Tuesday described a decision
by magistrates to put his parents under house arrest over
alleged fraudulent bankruptcy and false invoices as "abnormal".
He added that, while he would not say his family was the
victim of a plot, the news was "media masterpiece" as it had
overshadowed the vote by 5-Star Movement members against M5S
lawmakers backing Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo
Salvini's parliamentary immunity being lifted in the Diciotti
case.
"Those who read the documents (for the arrest of Renzi's
parents) and have a minimum of legal knowledge know that
depriving someone of their personal liberty for something like
this is abnormal," Renzi, a PD Senator, said on enews
newsletter.
"What's more, those who know how things really are know that
the documents do not say the truth. But that will be for the
trial.
"Everyone is equal before the law. My parents, like everyone,
have the right to a just trial and I hope a rapid one.
"I'm not shouting 'plot': I ask for trials to be conducted in
courtrooms, not on the web or in newspaper editorial desk rooms.
"We await the sentences, but sentences are announced in
court, not on the streets of populism.
"There's no need to say that the case of my parents has
totally overshadowed everything that happened yesterday in the
world of politics.
"All you have to do is read the newspapers to realise. A
media masterpiece, hats off".
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