Shall we beatify Ilaria Salis?
What the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, says and does, not only on the case of Ilaria Salis. Giuliano Cazzola's opinion
On Unità in the golden times, when, every Sunday and public holiday, activists distributed the newspaper house to house, the legendary Fortebraccio dedicated salacious and intelligent italics to the PCI's opponents. I remember that he joked about Giuseppe Saragat, then tenant of the Quirinale, accusing him of having seized the telegraph because the head of state was prompt in sending telegrams, urbi et orbi, on all possible occasions.
From Sergio Mattarella's second mandate, however, we will remember the phone calls, which were then made public through official press releases. Obviously there is nothing to complain about, of course! Except to point out that on recent occasions the president's phone calls have ended up placing – regarding episodes with political significance – a sort of Quirinale bubble on the topics of one of the positions in the field.
Let's start with the police beatings in Pisa: Mattarella's words were of infinite wisdom, because on that occasion the management of public order during an unauthorized demonstration had not been up to the task. But the left campaigned in Sardinia with the slogan ''pencils against truncheons''. It is also true that the head of state had the opportunity to return to the pro-Palestine demonstrations, stigmatizing the attack suffered by the director of La Repubblica at the Federico II University of Naples.
But in a country that has time to waste and that is always ready to unleash storms in a teacup, the Quirinale's letter to the vice-principal of Pioltello should be included, the content of which was exploited as an authoritative approval of the choice to close the school during Ramadam, despite the controversy that this decision had raised.
Finally, yesterday Mattarella telephoned Roberto Salis promising direct interest in favor of his daughter Ilaria. A beatification process is underway on the left against this fellow citizen of ours, as if the facts of which she is accused were meritorious works or youthful exuberance. It was once said that killing a fascist is not a crime.
Imagine, then, if we should get so angry – as the Hungarian judiciary does – for a few truncheon blows from a woman who went on a trip to Budapest on purpose to use it against alleged neo-Nazis! Furthermore, Mattarella will have noticed that Giorgia Meloni is under accusation for not dealing with the case with her friend Orbàn. For this reason Ilaria's father had turned to Mattarella.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/beatifichiamo-ilaria-salis/ on Sun, 31 Mar 2024 06:56:33 +0000.