Several personalities of entertainment and culture in France have signed an appeal, addressed to President Emmanuel Macron, “to maintain the commitment made by France” against the Italian exiles for whom extradition was requested, their children and their families. Among the signatories, who urge Macron not to behave as he would have done, in his place, an exponent of the Rassemblement National, Agnès B., Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Georges Didi-Huberman, Annie Ernaux, Costa-Gavras, Jean-Luc Godard.
“Perhaps you would not have made the decision (adopted by Mitterrand, ed). But the context was different, the ‘strategy of tension’ was still alive, French jurists were often perplexed by the ‘special laws’ on which the procedures were based Whatever the opinion on this legacy may be, you will agree that it is not possible to trace the course of time, nor change the events of the past “, reads the letter published in Libèration in which it is emphasized that all the dozens of people who have come out of hiding “they respected their commitment to renounce violence”.
“While these people are now between 65 and 80 years old, they have problems related to their age, health, addiction, aging, some in Italy use them as comfortable scarecrows for internal policy objectives that do not concern us”, it is specified, recalling that “in France only crimes against humanity are imprescriptible”.