2023-05-26 20:52:31
The affair alone sums up some of the tensions that ran through Italy during the Meloni era, at the intersection of the controversies over the installation in the places of power of his closest circle and the memory, still alive. , the long leaden years of the 1970s, marked by political violence from the far left and the far right.
The 23rd ever, Chiara Colosimo, born in 1986, member of Fratelli d’Italia, the far-right party of the President of the Council, was elected head of the bicameral anti-Mafia commission of the Italian Parliament. His candidacy and then his victory gave rise to a controversy, after the publication, at the beginning of May, by the program “Report” of the public channel Rai 3, of an undated photograph that came to awaken wounds from another time. We see M.me Colosimo smiling, arms joined with those of Luigi Ciavardini, 60, a figure of far-right Italian terrorism in the early 1980s, then imprisoned.
The Italian Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Committee is a symbolic institution, a place of memory identified with the struggle of the Italian Republic against the violence of organized crime and its terrorist consequences. The highlighting of the links between the victorious candidate of the majority for her presidency and a man from this world provoked outraged reactions in the opposition, but also among the families of the victims.
Implicated in the Bologna train station shooting
Former member of the Revolutionary Armed Cores, found guilty of the assassination of a judge and a policeman, Ciavardini was indeed condemned definitively in 2007 for his implication in one of the most traumatic events of the years of lead: the Bologna train station shooting which occurred on August 2, 1980.
More than four decades later, the memory of this bomb attack which caused the death of 85 people remains very present in Italy. Legal proceedings are still ongoing and investigative books continue to be written on the subject, the last one having been published in January (The Bologna massacre, Paolo Morando, Feltrinelli, untranslated). The judicial truth that established the involvement of the extreme right in close contact with certain components of the state apparatus has often been contested by the political family of Mr.me Melons.
In an open letter published by the Everyday occurrenceSalvatore Borsellino, brother of judge Paolo Borsellino, martyr of the fight against the mafia assassinated in 1992as well as several members and defenders of the families of victims of mafia and terrorist violence have declared themselves “unbelievers” facing the prospect to see Mme Colosimo take over the presidency of the commission. Highlighting the historical links between organized crime and certain circles of the ex-subversive right of which Ciavardini is one of the best known representatives still alive, the signatories thus denounced about Mme Colosimo le choix for such an important role (…) of a person who is not ashamed of having had relations with a mass murderer who never repented”.
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