Rooting for Bozzoli and anti-judicialism

Dear Vincenzo,
I confess something to you too: I have the same hope as you and I find myself a fan of this gentleman, for whom I hope a successful escape, despite the fact that he was definitively sentenced to life imprisonment, a circumstance that has not convinced me of his guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. And we are not the first to side with criminals. Consider that on the left this is a prevailing custom: for example, Ilaria Salis, convicted several times, was nominated and elected thanks to her criminal record that was proposed to the voters as a meritorious element. And the young lady goes around saying that squatting illegally is not a crime and that not everything that is legal is right. For these statements she is applauded. In fact, I would also add that her candidacy was presented as a chance to save her from conviction and prison by voting. Which seems shameful to me. This is a form of evasion from justice no less serious than being a fugitive, with the aggravating circumstance that entering the field to serve public affairs is used as a tool for the pursuit of strictly personal ends.

I too hear commentators and colleagues talking about Giacomo Bozzoli as a highly dangerous criminal who must be captured as soon as possible and his escape as a failure of justice, which should have watched over him and not let him escape, perhaps locking him up in a cell even before the final sentence, that is, when he was still to be considered innocent. Yet the magistrates did not put Bozzoli behind bars because he was considered not a dangerous person for others. In short, even assuming that he killed his uncle, which I am allowed to doubt, Giacomo is not to be considered a potential murderer capable of repeating the crime and killing again. Unfortunately, in Italy there is a lack of legal and constitutional culture, ignorance dominates in this area, so it is easy to fall into the legalism that is the first symptom of this deficiency, which even individuals who should know the law suffer from, including politicians and journalists. I get goosebumps when some colleagues repeat that Bozzoli should have been in prison well before the ruling of the Court of Cassation. Why? And where is this failure of Justice? For me, justice fails elsewhere, for example, when it inflicts life imprisonment or years of jail time on those who are blameless, something that, as the news shows, not only happens but happens all too often.

So I ask myself: why hasn’t the fugitive status of criminals whose danger to the entire community was more than certified and documented been defined as a “failure of justice”? I am referring to the red terrorists who for decades have enjoyed and in fact continue to enjoy the protection of the French State, which has welcomed and pampered them, and also of that part of Italian society made up of haughty intellectuals with a very personal sense of justice who, rather than considering them brutal, unscrupulous, bloodthirsty murderers, have considered them and still consider them heroes to be protected, who should live undisturbed elsewhere rather than return to their homeland to pay off their debt to justice. People who have slaughtered hundreds and hundreds of representatives of the State, magistrates, police officers, carabinieri, but who are also free and have not spent a single day in detention. But for some reason, for many it is more unacceptable that Giacomo Bozzoli had the opportunity to escape rather than that the Red Brigades are still on the run.

It so happens that I am far more outraged by the escape of the latter than by that of the former. But the terrorists, whose whereabouts we know well, we leave them where they are and convince ourselves that the problem of Italian justice is the unavailability of a Giacomo Bozzoli.