"She went looking for it at 50%". Leonardo Bonucci certainly did not see the interview of John Minoli a Giulio Andreotti a September evening of the now distant 2010. If he had done it, perhaps he would have avoided a similar sentence by ending up on the grill of controversy with the accusation of being with the racists who in that of Cagliari they filled the stadium with "buu" at the address of Moise Kean when the talented young Juventus striker vented his joy for the goal scored by challenging his chest out, proud of his black skin, the howling curve of the island ultras.
More than the racists, on Saturday evening at the Sardegna Arena there were the usual idiots who unload insults against the black player of the opposing team, ready to cheer on their own. Ugly scourge to eradicate racism, especially in this period of great migrations where societies are now multi-ethnic. That's why it is the worst own goal that Bonucci could score – all the more so a player of his caliber, one of the three pillars of the formidable Juventus BBC, the one that according to Mourinho should teach how to defend oneself in football at Harvard University – coming out hot with a sentence that gives half of those "boo" blame Kean himself, arousing immediately the indignation of many black "colleagues"., from Thuram to Balotelli, from Sterling to Depay. The bad save happens, Bonucci tried to fix it saying he "has been misinterpreted on a topic for which hours would not be enough and for which he has been fighting for years" to end with "the condemnation of all forms of racism and discrimination".
If Bonucci gives Kean a 50% discount, he didn't get any Andreotti when Minoli, in an episode of “We are the story” he asked him why he was killed George Ambrosoli, the liquidator of Michele Sindona's banks. “I don't want to take the place of the police or the judges – replied Andreotti, then a life senator – Certainly he is a person who, in Roman terms, he was looking for it".
A joke that triggered chain reactions. "Words that speak for themselves": lapidary was the comment by Umberto Ambrosoli, the son of the lawyer, the bourgeois hero of the book by Corrado Stajano, who he paid with his life, in an ambush under the house on a July evening in 1979, his meticulous work to root out the plots and scams implemented by Sindona.
Andreotti immediately noticed the gaffe, all the more pronounced by a politician who for years supported Sindona's operations to the point of defining him as a "defensor lirae" and who, although acquitted in the Palermo trial on relations between politics and the mafia, has never managed to erase the shadows gathered on an extraordinary political career that led him seven times to lead the government.
Like Bonucci today, even Andreotti the next day said he was misunderstood. He explained, in a note, that with that "if he was looking for it, I meant to refer to the serious risks to which the lawyer Ambrosoli had consciously exposed himself with the difficult task he assumed". And as proof of his good faith Andreotti cited several times the Finambro case, the leading holding company of Sindona's financial companies, which was denied the capital increase, an operation considered fundamental by Sindona, just when Andreotti was premier at Palazzo Chigi and Ugo La Malfa was at the Treasury, a rejection that opened the first crack in the Sindonian empire which soon fell apart, sinking into the bankruptcy of the Italian private bank.
