BOLOGNA – "It happened that I used that form declaring unsuitability for the CPR, it seemed rather neutral to me." The speaker is a psychiatrist from Rome, one of the 23 doctors searched at dawn on Wednesday as part of the investigation by the Ravenna prosecutor's office. "But we are still talking about very low percentages – he emphasizes – I will have issued about ten denials out of 200 migrants examined over these years."
"Officers at the house at 5:30 in the morning"
"Some plain-clothes officers came at 5:30 in the morning – he recounts – repeatedly ringing the intercom at my home, which frightened both me and my partner. We heard them at 6 o'clock and opened up. When they reached the door they started raising their voices. We were afraid it was a scam because they were in plain clothes, the little girl was terrified, so much so that we called the Carabinieri and only opened the door after they arrived. It was a terrible experience for my whole family. We are decent people, public employees." His assignment, he explains, "involves a weekly consultation visit arranged between the local health authority and the CPR: I am asked to examine the subject on a purely clinical basis. As far as I am concerned, I work for a public body, for which I have the task of carrying out that service. In my view – he concludes – it is hard to imagine that an organisation such as the one hypothesised by the Ravenna prosecutor's office actually exists."
"Methods reserved for criminals"
His lawyer, former prosecutor Antonio Ingroia, condemns "search methods generally reserved for criminals." He does not rule out "appealing to the review tribunal against the search warrant." He also adds: "With my old experience as an anti-mafia prosecutor, I feel compelled to express my surprise at the fact that a body like the SCO, which has always dealt with the Mafia, is devoting investigative resources to investigations like this one."
