ashamed

Today, I'm really ashamed to be italian. I was happy, you know?, happy that finally 76 years of jail had been asked (in total) for those fascist policemen who tortured protesting people at Diaz school in Genoa during G8 meeting in 2001.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, let say that instead of looking for the black blocks who destroyed shops and streets in Genoa, policemen found much easier to charge and beat students, old people and many other pacific manifestants. And to enter in a school where a lot of people was sleeping, to beat all the people they could (journalists among them), to bring all of them to the police station, to beat them again and to humiliate them in ways that would have probably met the approval of Pinochet's soldiers during dictatorship in Chile...

But it happened in 2001, not 40 years ago. And it happened in the middle of Europe. Now after 7 years (and 2 governments which did nothing to clarify responsibility and punish who ordered the use of violence), we're finally coming to a judgement....

Except that NONE of them will do a single day of jail: in Italy there exists no law against tortures, probably because they were assuming nothing like this could have ever happened, so they're accused of minor things (abuse of their official position). as a result shorted condemnation will be condoned, and longer one will probably be canceled because the process has taken too much time.

Welcome to the banana republic and to the sleep of democracy...

I cannot believe this. Period. But it's true. And I fear it can happen again.


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UPDATE: and if you're italian, an interesting article from Repubblica