MILAN (ITALPRESS) – “I do not seek your compassion, but I want to tell you how difficult these 12 months have been for me and my family, also because my husband is not well. We lived nights and days without sense with the fixed thought about Alberto to imagine how he is, what he thinks, what he hopes, what he is afraid of. I want to remember that my son was taken away a year of life, a year when he could not enjoy the affection of his family.” He is barely keeping the tears Armanda Colusso Trentini, mother of Alberto, the Italian co-operator held in a prison in Caracas in Venezuela from last 15 November without a formal charge.
Addressing journalists during a press conference at Palazzo Marino in Milan, Ms Trentini also stressed that “that until August our government had not yet had any telephone contact with the Venezuelan government and this shows how little they spent for my son. To achieve the goal of Alberto’s liberation, there had to be, but there was not, a cohesive and motivated group of people who had to aim for the same result. Instead I am here after 365 days to express my indignation, because I am sure that for Alberto you did not do what was necessary and necessary to do for his liberation. I was too patient and educated, but now my patience has exhausted,” he added.
In the course of the year Alberto Trentini was locked in a cell of 2 meters for 2 in difficult hygienic conditions, as told by a Swiss prisoner. “But it should be noted that the Swiss government went to Caracas to take his prisoner, as the American, Colombian and other countries were freed, who told us the same terrible conditions of detention – he told – Only after the first 6 months of total isolation, Alberto could phone three times for a few minutes and towards the end of September received the first and only visit of the ambassador. These were concessions from the Venezuelan government to small groups of prisoners to be able to assert that they had been made without prejudice to their rights.”.
Mrs. Trentini continued: “I had reassigned the handshake of our President Mattarella on 19 October last to the ministra dell’Education venezuelana and the relaxed and constructive climate with which the celebrations for the canonization of the two Venezuelan saints in Rome were held. I had hoped that this opportunity was the turning point for Alberto’s liberation. Recent events and threats between the United States and Venezuela may have somehow interrupted the negotiations for Alberto, but I cannot forget the lack of contacts with Venezuela in the previous months.”.
Alessandra Ballerini, lawyer of the Trentini and Regeni families (the parents of Giulio were present in the hall), said that the lack of recognition of the Maduro government by Italy after the last presidential elections “has not made the relations fluid. And that’s why in the weeks he saw when the state was canonized, we hoped that a diplomatic channel would be opened and not just talks. I would recommend Maduro to take advantage of this friendly relationship between Venezuela and Italy. Take advantage of this moment and make a gesture of relaxation: his ministers respect the promises and allow Alberto to return home.”.
To the questions of journalists regarding the negotiations for the liberation of the co-operator, Ballerini did not release particular details, but admitted that “the negotiators were aware, some milliarding a power that perhaps they did not have”. On the edge of the press conference, the conductor Fabio Fazio, on the front line in recalling Alberto Trentini in his broadcasts, said that “to say more than what Mrs Armanda said is difficult. I make my appeal to the rash Ballerini, with the request to the government to act as if Alberto was their son. It would be enough to say ‘act’, because it is our fellow citizen. We must take care of it without pause.”.
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