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The problem is not Richard Gere which for us will always remain Edward di Pretty Woman, the man declaring eternal love to a prostitute climbing a fire escape. The problem is what Italian justice has become – such as its degree of reliability, such as its degree of credibility – in a country where magistrates denounce magistrates, the CSM is reduced to a den of poisons and cross-accusations, in the courts trials are set up on fragile or non-existent accusations to the point that over half of the criminal proceedings end with acquittals and acquittals.
The Palermo trial where the former Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini risks up to 15 years in prison for kidnapping is enriched with a new piece: among the admitted texts, appears the Hollywood star, Richard Gere, who boarded the ship Open Arms. The knot is that of NGOs engaged in a daily operation of transferring people from the Libyan coasts to the Italian ones. The crux is who should decide the border policy: who enters Italy does the government decide or an NGO? Does the government decide who enters Italy or do human traffickers decide? The spectacle of the Palermo trial, especially with Hollywood stars recruited for this purpose, will be inevitable, and for this reason the Palermo prosecutor had expressed an opinion against the hearing of a witness indicated by the lawyer of Open Arms. The judge assessed otherwise.
As is known, in a procedure that is not identical but very similar, that of Catania in the Gregoretti case, Salvini was acquitted because the fact does not exist. In Catania the Public Prosecutor requested and obtained the non-place to proceed, in Palermo instead he asked and obtained the indictment. We will see what turn the trial will take but there remains a sense of disorientation in the face of a legal absurdity that casts even more discredit on Italian justice. Salvini’s ideas on immigration are known, the line of the Conte 1 government, at the time of the yellow-green alliance, was marked by intransigence and this rigor had translated into a vertical decline in landings and deaths in the Mediterranean.
Today, that the phenomenon has returned out of control, with increasing pressure on the Sicilian and Calabrian coasts, the decisive message that a government sends out is confirmed. If you open the doors, the landings increase because the line of compliance is a powerful pull factor. If you keep them barred, the criminals on the other side of the sea think twice. Talk shows and endless debates can be set up on government decisions, but trials should be held on crimes, the real ones. Starting with human trafficking which means slavery, drugs, prostitution. The traffickers’ network is a worldwide emergency, yet trials are carried out against legitimately designated ministers.
All over the world border policy is decided by the executive, border control in Ventimiglia or Ceuta is the exclusive competence of the French and Spanish governments, no prosecutor dreams of opening a file. In Italy, interference by the judiciary is on the agenda, with all due respect to Montesquieu. Only at the end of this umpteenth judicial odyssey, will we understand if it was so necessary to cover ourselves with ridicule in the eyes of the world.
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