Too many media trials on the tragedy of Crotone
Opposition politicians and left-wing newspapers chase each other to call for the resignation of Minister Piantedosi. Paola Sacchi's note
Media trial on the tragedy of Crotone. With a request for resignation. After the strong accusations against the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi and the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the League, now the request for his resignation rises more and more from the left-wing newspapers, in line with the tough position (against Piantedosi , to the Constitutional Affairs commission) of the new leader of the Pd Elly Schlein .
Media trial even before the judicial inquiry is made. It is not a good show, for those who define themselves on the guaranteed left, the media process that has been poisoning and conditioning the political life of our country for thirty years and now also exerted on the tragedy that took place on the Calabrian coasts. On which, as the governor Roberto Occhiuto of Forza Italia immediately denounced, there has not been due attention from the EU, to whose leaders Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni immediately wrote, and from past governments which, as Occhiuto underlined, they did not tackle the sea route from Turkey, after the EU had worked with Turkey itself to block land departures.
The other morning, Salvini was immediately indignant at the folds that the media process was taking, targeted for the competence of his ministry on the Coast Guard. Yesterday evening the League reiterated: "On the tragic story of Crotone, total confidence in the work of Minister Matteo Piantedosi", which SalvinI has already expressed, judging "the attacks on the Coast Guard shameful and offensive".
But, while the media process took off, it happened that the day before yesterday the same Minister Salvini, for years in the crosshairs of the left and its media, the left, indeed the center-left, which has already sent him to trial for a political decision, he found himself rejecting the paper accusations in colossal titles in a place that could not be more liberal and guarantor. At the Luigi Einaudi Foundation , alongside the president, lawyer Giuseppe Benedetto, whose new book "Non diamoci del tu" was presented,
Salvini, who had been invited with Northern League undersecretary Andrea Ostellari to discuss the separation of careers, responded to the accusations, pointing his finger at the "vulgarity" with which "politics is carried out by attacking state bodies".
As for the issue in question, crucial for the reform of justice, the deputy prime minister recalled that his party has already presented a bill on the separation of careers (another proposal also from Forza Italia) as a choice resulting from the commitment of the League promoting the referendum with the Radicals. A commitment for which Benedict thanked him. “Every year – Salvini recalled – there are a thousand innocent people who end up in prison. But who will compensate them for the mud, the discredit thrown at them?”. The deputy premier also says he is confident, despite everything, that the new course of the Democratic Party can be in dialogue on the issue of justice.
But the media and political process that is raging on the Crotone tragedy does not seem to have the flavor of guaranteeism.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/troppi-processi-mediatici-sulla-tragedia-di-crotone/ on Fri, 03 Mar 2023 07:02:40 +0000.