Dear Feltri,
what happened in Turin on Saturday night, where a journalist was attacked by two members of CasaPound, is something serious and it is right that it be stigmatized by the entire political class, both right and left, as in fact happened. But I do not understand why this episode should lead to accusations against the government of tolerance and complicity towards fascist or neo-fascist groups. What does Meloni have to do with what two idiots did against a young man guilty of filming the fascist rally with his cell phone?
Lorenzo Pellegrini
Dear Lorenzo,
every occasion is good, for an opposition in crisis and without arguments and reasoning, to criminalize an executive as well as a majority that constantly demonstrates to have a great respect for the democratic values that are the foundation of any civil and free order. Our prime minister has, without ambiguity and without hesitation, condemned the episode to which you refer, also expressing solidarity with the journalist attacked in such a vile way. So I really don’t see how it can be argued that Giorgia Meloni or the parties of the majority wink at those four losers who remained to praise fascism and Mussolini, with rallies, chants, celebrations, fireworks and so-called Roman salutes. The left does not give up this narrative, the one that considers Meloni a fascist, and intends to persuade public opinion of the fact that in Italy there is a concrete risk of a restoration of the Benito regime. Which is quite laughable, it is so risky and surreal. Every time Meloni takes a stand against any form of totalitarianism, she reiterates her intolerance and her contempt for any regime that stifles freedom and takes power away from the sovereign people, but this is not enough, it never seems to be enough. The accusations of fascism never cease to arrive from those who believe fascism is unjust and communism, on the other hand, is just, even though they are both equally dictatorial and absolutist systems.
As for the events in Turin, we can apply the same paradigm and find the same contradiction. Which is this, in a nutshell: the red terrorists who slaughtered hundreds of innocent people, very young people, men of the institutions, magistrates, servants of the State, police officers, carabinieri, in a few years are respected, protected and treated like heroes, despite having stained themselves with the aforementioned crimes; on the other hand, the militants of CasaPound, who for us – let it be clear – are two idiots, are dangerous fascists whose violence is wrong and must be contained because it represents a risk of illiberal drift, as the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein and the leader of the Five Star Movement Giuseppe Conte say.
I can’t even explain why Ilaria Salis, on trial in Hungary because she is accused of the crimes of aggravated assault and criminal association, was nominated by the left for the European elections, the same left that is now outraged by the same crime (but in a milder form, that is, here the injuries that are presumed to have been inflicted by the two militants did not put the life of the alleged victim, that is, the journalist, at risk) of which Salis is accused of having been the author. For consistency, Salis should never have been nominated, if for the left violence in politics is intolerable, a principle that we fully and unquestionably share.
However, it happens that Salis, convicted several times with definitive sentences that establish her guilt in the context of violent crimes and that have to do with politics and ideology as well as on trial for the crimes of aggravated injuries and criminal association, is praised, defended and carried in the palm of the hand, while if the one who beats is a right-winger, then brute force becomes no longer a
merit but yet another reason to point the finger at the government and raise the spectre of fascism.
Violence has no political color. And it must be disapproved of always, not only when it is convenient for the left.