The missiles of Amato and Repubblica on Ustica
The media pirouettes of Giuliano Amato and the newspaper Repubblica on Ustica. Damato's Scratches
It may be due to our old friendships, although they have weakened over time, it may be due to the distrust that newspapers often arouse in me more than the politicians they cover, it may be due to the advanced age of the person concerned, which makes ambitions for higher positions unlikely. to those he has already held in the institutions, from undersecretary to president of the Council and finally of the Constitutional Court, I thought from the first moment that last Saturday Giuliano Amato had run into a metaphorical missile from the Republic when talking about the one in Ustica . Which according to him, in an interview with that newspaper, may have mistakenly shot down the Itavia plane carrying 81 people, including passengers and crew, from Bologna to Palermo on 27 June 1980. An error, again according to Amato, attributable to the French air force hunting, coinciding with NATO exercises in the Mediterranean, a Libyan mig where Gaddafi himself was supposed to travel, saved by an Italian tip-off before he could board.
A JOURNALISTIC AMBUS ON AMATO?
The suspicion of a journalistic ambush, perhaps driven by a simple scuppetistic obsession, a scoop, not necessarily linked to who knows what internal or international political plots, came to me due to the fact that Repubblica had not considered it necessary to report the declared lack of evidence on the front page from Amato. And this is not in the quotation marks and peremptory title – “ Here is the truth about Ustica. Macron apologizes ” – nor in the long summary placed under the photo of the wreckage of the plane reassembled after recovery.
DC 9 – that summary said without quotation marks but also without any doubtful formula – was hit by a French missile that was supposed to kill Cheddafi. The Libyan leader escaped the NATO trap because he was warned by Craxi. The former prime minister reveals who and why hid responsibility for the massacre. “ After 40 years – concluded the summary, this time with quotation marks – the Elysée is called to remove the shame that weighs on Paris ”.
THE FORCINGS
Already fueled by the simple vision and reading of those titles and the relative summary, let's say, in the plural, of those titles, the suspicion of an at least widespread forcing of the interview increased two days later by reading about Maurizio Belpietro's Verità , still on the front page , Amato's written response to the questions from that newspaper in which he specified, as if in an obvious way: "The titles with which an article or an interview are presented – you know as much as I do – the author does not answer", worried – unlike the headline writer of La Repubblica – to expose his reflections, intuitions and so on, specifying that he has no proof. A clarification, this, due from a man of political and institutional responsibilities like his, different from an intellectual like the good soul of Pier Paolo Pasolini, also remembered by Tiziano Maiolo in Dubbio , who was allowed by Corriere della Sera to write about those responsible for other atrocities despite the admitted lack of proof. Because of those habits of his, Pasolini never even thought of being a magistrate or politician, not even at a very local level.
AMATO'S SECOND INTERVENTION ON USTICA
My surprise was therefore great, barring unlikely censures suffered by the interested party, when I read in Repubblica a second intervention by Giuliano Amato on the Ustica affair, let's call it that, this time in the form of an article, in which I did not find any traces of dissent, surprise and anything else felt in his responses to the Truth compared to the headlines dedicated to his interview by the newspaper founded by Eugenio Scalfari and now directed by Maurizio Molinari. Which I discovered, having learned from Amato himself by reading the article, to have played a role in obtaining his consent to the interview proposed to him and collected by Simonetta Fiori. Of whom Tiziana Maiolo, again in Dubbio , wrote as "a cultured pen, an author of books, not a professional conspiracy theorist". It too, therefore, was probably surprised, betrayed and so on by the title given to what has ultimately become yet another detective story of a declining summer and already crowded with mysteries or political controversies.
What I really found a bit exaggerated in the more or less summary trial conducted against an even imprudent – perhaps – Giuliano Amato, caught between his habits of confidentiality and the opportunity to speak for once as an even more subtle doctor, until appearing "Perfidious" in the eyes of Maiolo, still on Doubt , is what former party colleague Rino Formica sent him to say. With whom for a certain time Amato shared the trust of Bettino Craxi, in the golden years of the socialist leader at the helm of the government.
Interviewed by Domani , Carlo De Benedetti's newspaper, despite having been the first to talk about a missile in the skies of Ustica in 1980 as Transport Minister, Fornica even invited us to "frame" Amato's interview in a "climate" in which “we want to close the season of the anti-fascist Republic. We want to push the country – he said – to acknowledge that one structure has definitively ended and that another must be opened", in which not only the anti-fascism of the Republican Constitution of 1947 but also that which preceded it would be cancelled. in 1943 with the armistice of 8 September, the rebirth of the democratic parties, the escape of the King and finally the constitutional referendum of 1946. It is really a bit exaggerated, I repeat, to attribute to Amato a bucket of all this with the Ustica missile, whether it is presumed or true.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/giuliano-amato-repubblica-piroette/ on Sat, 09 Sep 2023 04:48:41 +0000.