Bossi’s historic driver: "He loved the people and received so much love"

Aurelio Locatelli and More deaf he is a seemingly gruff big man, who has dedicated himself to Lega most of his life. From the 1990s onwards, he was one of the cornerstones of that personal security servicecomposed mainly of Bergamowhich the former senator Massimo Dolazza organized around Umberto Bossi.

For example, there was “Aurelio” – as he is referred to in the League – at the wheel of the senatur’s car on the night he had the illness in March 2004. After Bossi’s illness, Locatelli also worked as a driver for Giancarlo Giorgetti and for Matteo Salvinibefore the latter’s move to Rome, in 2018 as Interior Minister. In short, not just any driver, so much so that in those years he was also elected as a representative in federal party council.

A witness to the Second Republic

Generally shy with journalists, he lived an important part of the history of Second Republicremaining in the rear. But when he talks about Bossithe tone returns militant.

Bossi’s defense from the media

“Many journalists e commentators they tried to transform Bossi in what it wasn’t”, he says, venting to AGI. “They made fun of him, they exaggerated and inflated details, forgetting the important or significant things, the ones that the people liked normal peopleal people – continues -. Behold, I, of him, loved his humanityhis ability to do politics starting from simple things and give them simple people“.

The end of a political era

“With him, a way of doing things has definitively disappeared politics that I loved. With him a man died for me politician who loved the people and in return he received a lot amore“, he claims. “Things that are difficult to understand for those who don’t want to see it reality“, he adds, bitterly.