The Police between dismay and reassurance
At first glance, indignation over the events in Verona assails, but we must avoid firing demagogically at the entire police force: the institutions have collaborated. Federico Guiglia's notebook
When the police investigate the police, the reaction of the citizens who learn the surprising news can only be of two opposite, yet complementary ways. At first glance, indignation assails: how is it possible that in one of the places par excellence appointed to represent the sense and common sense of the State, i.e. the Verona police station, an inspector and four agents were the protagonists of alleged acts of violence in the against particularly vulnerable people, such as immigrants and the homeless who would have been targeted between July 2022 and March 2023?
THE POLICE DID NOT SLEEP A EYE
But the dismay must go hand in hand with an important reassurance for everyone: it was precisely the officials of the Police Headquarters itself, in agreement with the Prosecutor's Office, who initiated the investigation – also by activating cameras in the offices frequented by their suspected colleagues – , which has now led to the house arrest of the five.
Therefore, not only has the institution carefully avoided turning a blind eye to the hypothesized misdeeds (the suspects are also charged with the crime of torture), but it has contributed to opening wide the magistrates' commitment.
That should be enough, both to avoid demagogically shooting at the pile of nearly 100,000 policemen, women and men, who do their duty every day in the service of the national community – and not a few of them even at the cost of their lives – and to claim that now all the competent authorities can better ascertain the eventual and individual responsibilities in this "chilling affair", as it has been rightly christened. Rightly so: just read the reports of the heinous and shameful treatment that would be meted out to victims of intolerable behavior regardless. But twice intolerable if they happened in a police station of the Republic.
It is therefore reassuring, in this very ugly story, that the Chief of Police, Vittorio Pisani, wanted to thank the Verona prosecutor's office for having entrusted the investigation to the flying squad.
COLLABORATION BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS
The loyal collaboration between the institutions called to ascertain the truth of the facts is a cardinal principle of our Constitution for the benefit of all Italians. Who, pending maximum clarity on the matter, have the right to know that they can continue to have faith in their state.
Published in L'Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza and Bresciaoggi
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/polizia-verona/ on Sun, 11 Jun 2023 05:28:37 +0000.