Premier Giorgia Meloni says in a new
book excerpted Sunday that hitting her sister Arianna is like
hitting herself in reference to a Bari probe into a former
employee of Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo who allegedly
illegally accessed thousands of tax files belonging to
politicians, VIPs, footballers and showbiz figures.
"When this news came out, my sister sent me a photo of her bank
account statement. There were 2,100 euros. She wrote to me: 'If
they had asked me, I would have told you how much I had in the
account', with a smiley face," the premier says in veteran star
Rai journalist Bruno Vespa's latest book, Hitler and Mussolini.
The fatal idyll that shocked Europe and Italy's central role in
the new Europe.
Meloni goes on: "I think they are targeting Arianna because she
doesn't have the protections that I can have, but hitting her is
like hitting me.
"Unfortunately for them, they are dealing with another person
who has no skeletons in the closet".
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