Intelligence alert on Wagner, Crosetto tells Bonelli

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 13 - Italian intelligence service shave alerted the government on the activities of Russian mercenary group Wagner in African countries, driving migrants to Italy, Defence Minister Guido Crosetti said Monday in response to Green leader Angelo Bonelli who had accused the minister of being "shameless" in blaming Wagner and not a "huge" humanitarian crisis for the migration flow boom.
    "The issue I raised was highlighted by the insiders and an alert in this sense had already come from the services such as parliamentary intelligence oversight body Copasir. If Bonelli is instead exclusively interested in engaging in political polemics, I have no time to lose," said Crosetto after the Green-Left Alliance MP had invited him to "be ashamed" after his statements on Wagner's influence on instability in African countries and therefore on migratory flows.
    "It would be better," he added, "for Bonelli to reflect and acquire more information on the issue, given that I spoke about it as the head of Italian defence and not as a politician. It is a responsibility that leads me to speak the bare minimum and always measure my words, all the more so as Defence chief".
    (ANSA).