Raffaella Polato for the "Corriere della Sera"
WHERE WAS FOUND THE LIBYAN MIG SILA CALABRIA
Negotiations long. One condition at the end: "They would never have entered into management. Would never have had sensitive information. " And so it was said Cesare Romiti. "Never interference" in the ten years in Libya's Fiat. "Never any request." Not about the company, at least. Why then, in fact, its role as shareholder Tripoli once took advantage. He begins to tell it like this: "I remember one episode."
But if he chooses the onset minimal, and throws him there quite by accident, as if to suggest details of the second floor, the man who for a quarter of a century (1974 to 1998) led the Lingotto obviously already knows: what is going to add much secondary is not. Quell '"single episode" has to do with Ustica. The dell'Itavia DC9 crashed into the sea 27 June 1980. The Libyan Air Force Mig found twenty days after the mountains of Sila.
was, remains one of the great Italian mysteries. And while it took place, while it was still only record, Romiti received a phone call.
The Libyan partner?
"One of the two directors of Fiat in Lafico, yes. They were Abdullah and Saudi Regeb Miselli. I had heard, of course, immediately after the accident at Ustica. Accident, then ... All feared was a missile. An overrun, a secret battle in the skies, leaving the weapon and hits the civilian plane. We talked about it. I reassured ' .
DELLAEREO DELLITAVIA INABISSATOSI REMAINS IN THE SEAS OF USTICA
believe it?
"I know a few weeks later he discovered the" hunt "Libyan fell in Calabria. Miselli called me back. "
to say?
"What they wanted, they had to recover the wreckage. And they asked us a hand. "
gave? The CEO of Fiat had that power effectively?
"I spoke with the" services "in Rome. We will never know what happened, nor to the Ustica nor Silas, both during and after. We know that the Mig was returned. "
Dr. Romiti, Giovanni Agnelli was not to define the uncomfortable and embarrassing - even then - Libyan partner, "a shareholder who acts like a Swiss banker"? Doubts on the entry of Muammar Gaddafi they already had. After Ustica, the Colonel remained for another six years in the capital's main partner Fiat. What was, only realpolitik business?
"Look, it's true: with us the Libyans are seriously always behaved as Swiss bankers. We also remember the conditions of the Fiat at the time. When he entered Tripoli in 1976, we had a strong need for capital. This does not mean that negotiations have been long, almost two years. And this precisely because of the doubts of the Lawyer, and mine, on their "presentability". "
MIG LIBYAN
Come andò?
«Un giorno venne da me Nicolò Gioia. Era stato direttore generale Fiat, era in pensione, ma continuava a girare per il mondo. Mi riferì dei contatti che aveva avuto in Libia e dell'interesse a investire nel gruppo. Io ne parlai a mia volta con l'Avvocato, che mi chiese: "Romiti, lei?". Dobbiamo stare attenti a non irritare loro da un lato, gli americani dall'altro, risposi. Agli americani pensò naturalmente l'Avvocato. Informò George Bush senior, che allora era alla guida della Cia: ne ricevette una serie di raccomandazioni e il via libera. Poi, insieme, andammo da Carlo Azeglio Ciampi: e ricevemmo la benedizione anche del Governatore della Banca d'Italia» .
CESARE ROMITI
At that point, however, the deal was already done and it had a significant role Enrico Cuccia.
"I I went to him. As a lawyer, a man was curious about the world and attracted by the challenges. Libya Fiat certainly was. Cuccia studied the operation and said yes. But he also said, in Saudi and Miselli: "You must not get into management." Performed. They were in Turin, attended by councils, looked at the budgets and they left. When he came out, in '86, they measured the deal: the Fiat had been reborn, Libya had won. And a lot. "
ADDRESS Gaddafi
It's been a quarter century. You dealt with in secret and even embarrassment. Today, everyone in the eye the parade of government, big of Confindustria, the tent in front of the big bankers of Colonel planted in Villa Borghese. It was only a year and a half ago. The "realpolitik business" did not go too much too superficially, "beyond"? Nobody could imagine what is going on from Bahrain to Morocco, but in Libya the country risk has always been high. Much higher.
"The relationship with Tripoli has certainly exceeded the limits of the relationship between two countries. The Colonel is presented here, in Italy, with the provocative photos pinned on his lapel ... Still go there, on the catwalk to his tent, and shake his hand made premium over the rest. Including the fact that in the meantime Libya has become one of the most ferocious dictatorship. "
Gianni Agnelli
USTICA BIG
What fears most, from what is happening in the Middle East and North Africa?
"The tens of thousands of refugees and migrants who undermine us and the whole of Europe. The economic impact: think only of our energy dependence. "
And the specter of Islamic fundamentalism at the gates of the house?
"It is the further danger. But are the young, especially, to rebel against dictatorships so I think, at the fork, maybe it will be easier to take the road of democracy. I wish I was just a hope. "
BY Dagospia
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