Quarto Mayor Rosa Capuozzo
from the 5-Star Movement (M5S) told a prosecutor Monday that she
informed M5S bigwig Roberto Fico "immediately" of her November
24 interrogation about threats she allegedly received from
fellow councillor Giovanni De Robbio, who was expelled from the
M5S after allegations of Mafia links.
"No point keeping your hands clean if all you do is keep
them in your pockets," the embattled mayor of the town near
Naples wrote on Facebook Monday.
"The M5S...threw the baby out with the bathwater," she
added.
Fico, a leading member of the anti-euro party that prides
itself on being an outsider to what it says is the corrupt,
conniving political system in Italy, said Thursday that the
anti-establishment group is no longer present in Quarto,
confirming that councillors backing Mayor Rosa Capuozzo were no
longer considered part of it.
Capuozzo, elected as an M5S candidate, was expelled after
ignoring calls from the movement for her to resign amid a probe
into mafia infiltration of her administration.
"The M5S is no longer in Quarto to all intents and
purposes," Fico said when asked if the councillors have been
expelled.
Capuozzo's husband Ignazio Baiano is under investigation
for alleged false declarations and alleged breach of
construction regulations, ANSA sources said Thursday.
This may have been used in an attempt to blackmail
Capuozzo by a former councillor at the centre of the
mafia-infiltration allegations, Giovanni De Robbio, the sources
said.
De Robbio, who is alleged linked to the local Camorra
mafia, was expelled from the M5S before Capuozzo.
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