I am publishing the first part of Marco Travaglio’s presentation.

”Good day to you all,
I’m just getting this sheet that I am printing out as I need it for this presentation. It has been another great week. To read the newspapers and listen to the TV News you’d think Alitalia is safe! In reality Alitalia no longer exists. It is a company that is being liquidated and, as I hope can now be understood after the Annozero programme, it has been gifted at our expense, to a consortium of strange gentlemen who have no competence, no interest in air flight, but who have a great deal of competence in political relationships and political favours. Active and passive favours. And there’s a massive need for favours for our political class in relation to that flight as you have seen, Rome-Scajola-Rome, that Alitalia guarantees while Scajola is a Minister, and thus even now. Everyone is wrapped up in saving Alitalia that is not saved because it no longer exists and that will probably cost us more than three billion euro, which equals the cuts in spending on schools for the next few years. We are cutting three billion for schools and losing thousands and thousands of elementary teachers and employees to go and pay the debts of a public company that is gifted to sixteen flag-waving brothers.
Everyone is so tied up with joyous celebrations that instead should be funereal and it was not at all inevitable if the healthy part of Alitalia had been placed on the international market, the part that has been gifted to the 16 crafty ones. Probably the foreign carriers like Air France, Lufthansa, or BA, would have liked to buy the whole lot.