The Turin Court of Appeal rules on the fate of Matteo Renzi's mother.

The Turin Court of Appeal has issued a significant ruling directly involving Matteo Renzi 's mother, Laura Bovoli. The judges upheld the first-instance decision in the Direkta trial.

Direkta case, Laura Bovoli's role and relations with Provenzano under scrutiny

At the center of the case was Laura Bovoli's role as administrator of Eventi 6, a family business active in advertising distribution.

In 2014, the Sant'Albano Stura-based company Direkta managed the distribution of flyers for Eventi 6, using cooperatives from the GSI group, led by Giorgio Fossati, who reported unpaid debts of approximately €1.3 million.

To reduce these debts, Provenzano allegedly asked Eventi 6 to issue credit notes for alleged delivery failures . Similar requests had also been made to Paolo Buono of Gest Espaces. The defendants also included accountants Peretta and Pagamici and two of Provenzano's collaborators, Misiano and Spada.

The relationship between the Renzi family and Provenzano extended beyond the workplace: Laura Bovoli and her husband, Tiziano, had repeatedly invited the entrepreneur to watch Fiorentina matches with them. Pagamici said Provenzano often requested financing, including a €250,000 loan for two newspapers linked to Renzi's entourage, a transaction which, according to the bankruptcy trustee, aggravated Direkta's crisis.

Bovoli and Buono's defense argued that the credit notes were justified by genuine service problems, as demonstrated by the loss of major customers like Carrefour. Meanwhile, Direkta demonstrated inefficient management, with tons of unused and destroyed flyers—approximately 70% of production, as Provenzano himself admitted.

The appeal in the Direkta trial concluded with the acquittal of Laura Bovoli, Matteo Renzi's mother. The Turin Court of Appeal upheld the first-instance ruling issued by the Cuneo court, which had acquitted Bovoli, Paolo Buono, and Franco Peretta , all accused of aiding and abetting bankruptcy in the bankruptcy of the Direkta company, managed by Mirko Provenzano. Three other co-defendants, Bruno Pagamici, Vincenzo Misiano, and Donatella Spada, had been convicted in the initial phase of the proceedings.

After approximately two hours of deliberation, the Turin judges rejected the prosecutor's appeal. Pagamici's sentence was reduced from three years, eight months, and fifteen days to two years and four months. The charges against Misiano and Spada, however, were declared time-barred.

Matteo Renzi's words after his mother's acquittal

My mother acquitted again. Yet another trial, yet another acquittal. Today, the vigilantes who have been smearing us for years are silent, and the supporters of due process who know how to wait for sentences are winning. I wonder if all this pain, especially my own, was really necessary . I wonder if there isn't some intellectually honest person in some editorial office or political party headquarters who is willing, if not to apologize, but at least to ask a few questions. I wonder what our political story would have been like without the media campaign surrounding the many trials we've endured.

Then, he added and concluded:

“In the end, I tell myself that, of course, my parents didn't deserve all this . And yet, we can only be grateful: we are still strong and lucky. Thank you to those who never doubted us, thank you to those who didn't disappear, thank you to those who weren't ashamed. Because, as we can see from this umpteenth acquittal, we are not the ones who should be ashamed.”