Renzi host in Saudi Arabia "with the largest arms producers in the world". In October he had asked for the blockade for Turkey

"What is happening in Syria against the Kurds is pure horror. (…) Erdogan's regime must be stopped. The arms block is the minimum wage". To talk like this on October 14, in the midst of the offensive of the Turkey in the north of the Syria against the Ypg militias, it was Matteo Renzi. In its traditional enews, the leader of Italy Viva defended "that people" that "was on the front line to stop Isis extremism until a few months ago", addressing an invitation to Brussels: "Europe must immediately impose economic sanctions".

Two weeks later, the former prime minister's convictions on arms and human rights must be changed. The fact that the former prime minister was a guest of theSaudi Arabia for the Future Investment Initiative held from 29 to 31 October in Riyadh. The former secretary of the PD was, writes the Financial Times, among the "five presidents and the heads of some of the largest banks and arms industries of the world "who found themselves in the Saudi capital for the third edition of the so-called"Davos of the desert"(An appointment deserted by world leaders in 2018, as a result of the assassination of the political dissident Jamal Khashoggi, crime whose political will was attributed to the landlord, the prince Mohamed Bin Salman).

On 31 October, Renzi was the protagonist of a panel entitled "What's next in economic diplomacy and G20?" (What will happen in economic diplomacy and the G20? ", Scheduled in Saudi Arabia in 2020) with the former Foreign Minister Saudi Ibrahim Alassaf and three former prime ministers: the British David Cameron, the Australian Kevin Rudd and the French Francois Fillon. "Saudi Arabia is a superpower, not only in the economy, but also in culture, tourism, innovation and sustainability", is one of the sentences pronounced by the founder of Iv and recorded by Arab newspapers.

Before accepting the invitation, Renzi must have set aside his sensitivity for at least a moment: since 2015 one military coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia bombs it yemen targeting the positions of the Houthi, rebels of Shiite faith supported byIran, and affecting the civilian population.

In this, however, the former prime minister is consistent because the issue did not seem to interest him even when he was at Palazzo Chigi: in 2016, in fact, his government had released to Rwm Italia Spa – owned by the German company Rheinmetall, but based in Ghedi, in the province of Brescia, and with a factory in Domusnovas, Cagliari – an authorization to produce and supply Riyadh with 19.675 aerial bombs worth over 411 million euros. Not to mention that Saudi Arabia is the third country in the world for military expenditure "Following an increase of 9.2 per cent, for a total of 69.4 billion," reads the annual report 2018 of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

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