Italian deputy Angelo Bonelli said in X on Tuesday (29) that reported to the police the whereabouts of federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PL-SP), arrested in the European country.
“Carla Zambelli is in an apartment in Rome. I provided the address to the police, at this time the police are identifying Zambelli,” wrote the parliamentarian. However, it is still unclear if he really had a participation in the arrest of the Brazilian deputy.
Bonelli, 62, had already spoken out against the deputy in June, when, a few days after Zambelli revealed that he was in Italy, the parliamentarian said he had asked for information from Matteo Piantedosi, interior minister, and Antonio Tajani, to find out if the Italian government would implement the judicial cooperation agreement between Italy and Brazil to send Zambelli to Brazil.
“It is not possible to use Italian citizenship to escape a conviction. Italy, therefore, risks taking a paradise for convicted people,” said Bonelli at the time.
Bonelli, born in Rome and which is part of the opposition to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has always militated left in the Italian political world.
His first party was the Green Federation, where he remained from 1990 to 2021. Then he went to Green Europe, which incorporated his previous party and later formed the left green alliance, for which he was elected deputy in 2022.
Earlier, Bonelli was a councilman in Rome, regional counselor and regional environmental advisor in the Lazio region (where Rome is first located) and elected for the first time to the House of Representatives in 2006 – however, he could not reelect himself two years later because his party did not get the minimum votes to elect candidates.
He was elected again to the Lazio Regional Council in 2010, but lost the election to mayor of Taranto, in the region of Apulia, two years later. He was a councilman in this city, but resigned in 2016, after being widely criticized for his repeated absences in the sessions. In a Facebook statement, he claimed parents’ health problems and resigned.
Bonelli tried to return to the Italian parliament, which he did only in 2022, representing Imola.
In the House of Representatives, he is part of the group that seeks to associate Meloni with fascism – the Premier Party, the brothers of Italy, is heir to political movements admiring the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
Last year, when images of the party wing of the party were revealed making gestures and chanting neo-fascist slogans, Meloni criticized them and stated that “there is no room in the brothers of Italy for racist or anti-Semitic positions, as there is no room for the nostalgic of twentieth century.”
Despite the statement, Bonelli continued to criticize the prime minister. “Meloni condemns everything except fascism,” said the deputy.
Before that, in March, when Meloni participated in a session of the Chamber of Deputies, Bonelli starred in an embarrassing moment, telling the Prime Minister during the debate: “Do not look at these disturbing eyes!”
Meloni did not understand and asked: “Me, [estou fazendo] A disturbing look? ”Unknowingly what Bonelli said, the premie laughed and covered his head and face with his coat.
Massimo Gramellini, columnist of the Corriere Della Sera newspaper, wrote at the time that the embarrassing situation revealed “bipolarity [política] Italian”.
“Left voters see Angelo Bonelli of the opposition bench, telling Giorgia Meloni: ‘Don’t look at these disturbing eyes!’ And they are ecstatic: they consider it serious, reliable, brave and scathing, ”said the columnist.
“The right-wing voters see the Green Party leader scolding the prime minister and consider him sad, pedantic, boring and very absorbed in his role,” Gramellini argued.
