“Today perhaps the former terrorists will celebrate for having escaped forever, but I wish them to also feel the need to deal with their responsibilities and the courage to contribute to the truth”. Fifty years after the murder of commissioner Luigi Calabresi in Milan, for his son Mario the decision of the Chambre de l’Instruction of the Court of Appeal of Paris to deny extradition to Italy to ten former terrorists has “the bitter taste of French system, which for decades has guaranteed impunity to a group of people who have committed blood crimes “.
“I am convinced, together with my mother and my brothers, that putting Giorgio Pietrostefani in prison today, convicted for the murder of my father, no longer makes much sense, because half a century has passed and because he is an elderly person and very sick “, Mario Calabresi adds to ANSA, the measured tone of those who have not forgiven but have long since learned” not to cultivate anger “, as he was able to explain last May on the occasion of the celebrations for half a century from death of the father.
However, the bitterness remains for the decision to “reject as a whole the extradition request for all ten former terrorists who have been refugees for years in France, without distinguishing between their various biographies, the judicial procedures, the health conditions”. A flavor that “my family and that of the other relatives of the victims – assures the journalist – know very well”.
“In life you can change, these people will certainly have done it, and so you can become former terrorists, but you cannot think that time can remedy or erase the responsibility or the guilt of having taken the life of another man” adds Mario Calabresi, who was just over two years old when his father was murdered not far from home, while he was about to drive to work by car. “Together with the relief, I wish them to feel a different emotion”, he concludes thinking of Pietrostefani and the other former terrorists. That, in fact, of “dealing with their responsibilities and, a moment later, the courage to take a step”. The one towards the truth about those crimes, decades later still shrouded in mystery despite the numerous investigations, trials and convictions, many of which however were never carried out.
Source: Ansa
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