Coldiretti, Lollobrigida and Fratelli d’Italia, deep ties and #falseflag. #CleanSpades

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The ‘brother-in-law’ Minister Francesco Lollobrigida has been ‘outing’ in recent days – declaring his closeness to Coldiretti since the election campaign – without however revealing the deeper link between the yellow flags and Fratelli d’Italia.

In the meantime, among the spontaneous demonstrations of farmers protesting on the outskirts of Rome, a group of troublemakers emerges under the acronym ‘Agricultural Redemption’ claiming positions curiously close to Coldiretti and Lollobrigida. #Clean Spades. #falseflag.

1) Coldiretti and Fratelli d’Italia, the deep ties

National head of agricultural policies of Fratelli d’Italia is the deputy Aldo Mattia. Elected in Basilicata, where until the day before – although he had already retired – he was Coldiretti regional director. A manoeuvre studied in time by the ‘boss of bosses’ Vincenzo Gesmundo, to insert a valuable ally in the ranks of those who in the polls appeared as the most papable ‘masters of steam’.

During the election campaign, Aldo Mattia actively participated in all the meetings of the then ‘brother-in-law of Italy’ in Basilicata. With great success for both of them, the former in the Chamber of Deputies and the latter becoming ‘brother-in-law minister’ (of premier Giorgia Meloni). Through this deep bond, hitherto unspoken, the boss of bosses has had an easy way of manoeuvring Italian agricultural policies at will in Rome and Brussels.

1.1) Aldo Mattia and Coldiretti. From the AgriConfidi disaster to the two bankruptcies

Aldo Mattia started working for Coldiretti in 1979. And he immediately got into the good graces of Vincenzo Gesmundo who, having taken command of Palazzo Rospigliosi, wanted him at his side as deputy vice-president of AgriConfidi (Creditagri Italia SCpa), in 2010, as well as in the national board of loyalists. His ‘moral’ debt to the boss of bosses is not only linked to the AgriConfidi disaster, with a hole of 20 million euro, (1,2) but above all to the Civitavecchia bankruptcies.

In 2014 the accountant Aldo Mattia – in addition to his numerous posts in Coldiretti and its UECoop, Azienda Speciale Romana Mercati and the Rome Chamber of Commerce – had in fact taken on the role of chairman of the board, then sole director of the companies ‘il Buono’ and ‘Terminal del Gusto’ Srl. Both of which, after at least 8 million of declared investment in the construction of the Terminal del Gusto at the port of Civitavecchia, tragically self-failed (3,4).

1.2) ‘Moral’ debts

Vincent Gesmundo was able to help his old friend Aldo Mattia in the disastrous bankruptcy of the Terminal del Gusto in Civitavecchia, according to rumours, with financial support and connections. In those days Fabrizio Di Marzio, a councillor at the Bankruptcy Section of the Supreme Court, was beginning to approach Coldiretti before becoming its millionaire manager. (5)

The consultant in charge of assisting the companies brutally made bankrupt by the now Honourable Aldo Mattia was in fact Giuseppina Ivone of the Di Marzio-Ivone -Falcone firm, which made headlines for the ‘liquidators’ gang’ in Acqua Marcia (6,7). Ivone then also assumed the presidency of CAI SpA alias Federconsorzi 2, while Di Marzio joined the board of directors of Consorzi Agrari SCpa, its founding partner. (8)

2) Protesting farmers and ‘Agricultural Redemption’, #falseflag?

Protesting farmers arriving from Orte (Viterbo) at Rome’s Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) found, on Via Nomentana 1111, a group of troublemakers arriving from Bettolle (Siena). Who – instead of joining the dialogue on the problems to be tackled for the common cause of farmers and breeders, harassed by below-cost sales and Coldiretti’s agricultural policies that have caused 4.000 farms in Italy to close in the 2016-2021 period alone – allegedly chased the others away.

Eyewitnesses eport that the ‘Agricultural Redemption’ squadron allegedly railed against a female farmer and the various protesting farmers, threatening to kick them out ‘by force’ if they did not leave immediately. Farmer Andrea Libero Gioia refers on social media to them talking about the need to collaborate with ‘unions’ (read Coldiretti), the importance of being able to continue using pesticides and glyphosate, and sympathy for Minister Lollobrigida.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, in combination, after forbidding Rai’s CEO to allow protesting farmers on stage at the Sanremo Festival, instead allowed the press release of… the ‘coordinamento riscatto agricolo’ to be read there. In an attempt to accredit this little group, close to Coldiretti and Minister Lollobrigida (who in fact went to Via Nomentana and spent a couple of hours with them) as the (friendly) ‘voice’ of the protesting farmers. (9)

TheCoordinamento Riscatto Agricolo‘, it should be noted, has nothing to do with the ‘Comitati Riuniti Agricoli‘ led by Danilo Calvani, who first launched the farmers’ protest initiative in many regions of Italy, against Coldiretti and the government. But he copied their acronym, C.R.A., with the obvious aim of creating confusion in the media, as has already happened, and discrediting the real farmers in protest.

3) Fratelli d’Italia, which representation?

The first government party is representing the interests of a gilded caste whose millionaire ‘boss of bosses’ considers the farmers’ survival crisis a ‘micro-problem’ and wants to brand the protest as ‘hooliganism’. (10) A caste that, among other things, with its Federconsorzi 2 operation, has given away 21 million euros of farmers’ consortia property to private finance, with a probable tax evasion of over 10 million euros (11,12).

Giorgia Meloni is now faced with a crucial decision: continue to protect this caste and the agro-industrial oligarchies, or change register (and minister, and her former Coldiretti cabinet chief, and Fratelli d’Italia’s head of agricultural policy). To follow up on the demands of tens of thousands of farmers who are demanding the rights of family and peasant agriculture in every region and province of Italy.

4) Italian politics, what positions in agriculture?

The real farmers in protest who are today garrisoning 122 provinces in Italy are clamouring to:

– guarantee the #fairprice of their products, with a strict ban on sales below cost extended to members’ contributions to cooperatives, and consequent reform of legislative decree 198/21 (13)

– restore access to the SIAN (National Agricultural Information System) portal to free professionals, guarantee free competition in services in agriculture and freedom of association. (14)

Citizens close to farmers in turn demand to be able to buy local but authentic food, non-GMO, without pesticide residues, produced with respect for the environment and health, as well as for workers and farm labourers.

Italian politicians of every color except green, following Coldiretti’s false narrative, have confused Green Deal (= conversion from diesel to electric, now impossible for tractors) and Farm to Fork (= financed agroecology, reduction of dependence on pesticides and fertilisers, improvement of crops and products). Farm to Fork is also the only way to demand equal conditions on non-EU products. (15)

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Footnotes

(1) Dario Dongo. Vincenzo Gesmundo under investigation for attempted extortion. The Coldiretti Confidi disaster. #CleanSpades. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(2) See paragraph 5 of the previous article by Dario Dongo. AgriCorpoFiasco, Federconsortia 2, Agriconfidi. The collapse of the ‘Pyramid of Gesmundo’. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(3) Terminal del gusto, over 300 thousand euros of damage to local businesses. Civonline. 27.10.17 http://tinyurl.com/4x77bb9j

(4) Maurizio Campogiani. The inglorious end of the Terminal del Gusto. Trc newspaper. 5.10.21 http://tinyurl.com/bderjarb

(5) 400.000 euros salary plus 100.000 for the corporate position in Esiod, by 2020, in addition to professional consultancy. See Dario Dongo. Farmers’ protest, the letter from the big boss of Coldiretti. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(6) See the paragraph ‘The liquidators’ gang, Acqua Marcia’ in Dario Dongo’s article. Federconsorzi 2, AgriRevi, AIPO (Unaprol). Gold business for Coldiretti’s magic circle. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(7) On Giuseppina Ivone, Roberto Falcone and illicit conflicts of interest, see also the article by Dario Dongo. UNAPROL, AIPO and Oleificio Paladino, conflicts of interest like wildfire. #Clean shovels. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade). 13.1.22

(8) Dario Dongo. Federconsorzi 2, AgriRevi, AIPO (Unaprol). Gold business for Coldiretti’s magic circle. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(9) Sanremo 2024, the farmers’ message read by Amadeus: “Our work is underpaid, we ask for the right value for production”. Daily fact. 10.2.24 http://tinyurl.com/5hmp6bx8

(10) Dario Dongo. Farmers’ protest, the letter from the big boss of Coldiretti. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(11) Dario Dongo. Federconsorzi 2, CAI Real Estate Srl. Evasion or millionaire tax fraud? #Clean shovels. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(12) Ironically, the first beneficiaries of the operation to the detriment of the Agricultural Consortia are:

– Coldiretti’s financial company AgriCorporateFinance, alias AgriCorpoFiasco, now KZ (kamikaze?) in liquidation,

– Carlo De Benedetti. Entrepreneur not close to Coldiretti’s ‘new friends’, but rather to his ‘old friends’. But Vincenzo Gesmundo, as we know, is always ready to adapt to the ‘masters of steam on duty’. See the article by Dario Dongo. Federconsorzi 2, 21 million euros burned to agricultural consortia in the bonfire of finance. #Clean shovels. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade). 30.3.21/XNUMX/XNUMX,

(13) See paragraphs 4 and 5 of the previous article by Dario Dongo. January 31, 2024, the day of the farmers’ protest in Italy. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade). 31.1.24

(14) Dario Dongo. AGEA and MASAF ‘Coldiretti’. The suppression of freelancers in agriculture. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

(15) Dario Dongo. Protesting farmers, pesticides instead of #fairprice. GIFT (Great Italian Food Trade).

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Dario Dongo, lawyer and journalist, PhD in international food law, founder of WIISE (FARE - GIFT - Food Times) and Égalité.