Mattarella whips the state on the Moro case
"The weakness of the State manifested itself above all in its unpreparedness, sometimes in infidelity, in countering a war that today we would define as asymmetrical", Mattarella told the director of Repubblica on the Moro case
On this day of the victims of terrorism, deliberately identified by the legislator in the same day in which Aldo Moro was assassinated on 9 May 1978, the honesty of the head of state Sergio Mattarella stands out for a few words condensed above all in two passages of a long interview with Repubblica. . Who without pretense, without useless turns of words, has carved – I would say – what we all have intuited and no one at the top institutional has so far wanted so clearly to admit and at the same time denounce about the circumstances in which it was possible to kidnap the then president of the DC exterminating the supply as in a slaughterhouse. And then keep him locked up for 55 days in a phantom "people's prison" killing him just as facts or decisions were maturing – such as the pardon of Paola Besuschio, detained for terrorism – which could perhaps deepen among the torturers a fracture already consumed in the previous weeks and give another epilogue to the kidnapping.
"The weakness of the state manifested itself above all in its unpreparedness, sometimes in infidelity, in countering a war that today we would define as asymmetrical", Mattarella said verbatim to the director of Repubblica Maurizio Molinari who went to the Quirinale to interview him. The unpreparedness was very well known, also caused by the passage of the secret services, at that time, from a certain type of organization to another due to a recently adopted reform. The infidelity of who knows who and how many was less known, or less admitted, if not once by a magistrate particularly equipped in the field of terrorism investigations, who told a parliamentary commission of inquiry, speaking of the state and the red brigades: “We had the same consultants”, but one in particular. He also mentioned the name which, repeated by me in the Giornale, procured me a lawsuit for defamation that I had to close with a plea deal in the face of the extraordinarily rapid times of the trial, which made the newspaper's lawyer a lot suspicious – and perhaps not wrongly -.
"There are still shadows, dark spaces, complicity not fully clarified", insisted Mattarella. Whose words, while referring in particular to the Calabresi crime as an example, have brought back to me the disturbing detail detected on 4 May last by the then colonel and now retired general of the Carabinieri Antonio Cornacchia on the failed assault on the Moro prison discovered by the general Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, murdered after a few years in Palermo by the mafia. Cornacchia attributed the responsibility for that failed assault to the then Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, whose son Stefano saddened me – I would even rightly say – that that officer had not spoken like this when his father was still alive, and therefore in able to replicate and documentedly deny it.
However, apart from this disturbing detail of the story, listen to what my dear friend Michele Zolla, former adviser of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro at the Quirinale, has just written to me: "I stopped more than once in via Fani , also accompanied by people more experienced than me in the use of weapons, and there is only one consideration. The space is modest and to shoot crossfire you have to be quite experienced. Otherwise the risk for the attackers is to hit each other. Did all the known authors have this preparation or was there some unidentified extraneous contribution? Mah ". I share.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/mattarella-scudiscia-lo-stato-sul-caso-moro/ on Sun, 09 May 2021 07:20:09 +0000.