“Revenge for the reform and return of the pink robes” –

Augusto Minzolini

06 June 2024

A couple of weeks earlier than his demise, in a couple of days a yr may have handed, Silvio Berlusconi telephoned me from the room at San Raffaele the place he was hospitalized, confessing the fear that tormented him. «The one factor I would love – he advised me along with his voice breaking with emotion – is to be remembered for the various issues I’ve executed for this nation, for having served it with such dedication. As a substitute, out of spite, my adversaries proceed to wish to move me off as a whoremonger. It’s an unjust, dangerous factor that I can’t settle for and can’t permit, at first for my youngsters and for the nation.” As common, Cav seemed into the gap, at his adversaries, those that nonetheless have not eliminated the defeat of ’94, who do not forgive him for having blocked his path to the Energy they have been satisfied they already had of their fingers, not proud of having persecuted him in life, it appears, they wish to put on down his picture even following demise. We’re confronted with the standard try, to make use of a Latin expression, of “damnatio memoriae”: the target is to present him a posthumous sentence that spreads a veil of disgrace over his determine as a statesman. And this thought alone is disturbing and indignant. But, simply learn the information, it’s destiny that Silvio Berlusconi is not going to be left alone even within the followinglife.

On the Florence Prosecutor’s Workplace there are nonetheless those that elevate the loopy, to not say demented, accusation who would see its shadow behind the mafia massacres and – yesterday’s information – the Legal professional Normal of the Cassation would additionally wish to get the Ruby ter trial once more on its toes, the one regarding the Olgettines, asking to cancel the acquittal of all of the accused (together with the Cav) and to repeat the trial. With out going into the deserves, one needs to be astonished: one yr following the disappearance of Cav and two days earlier than the vote for the European elections, there may be yet one more try and convey him once more into play. Now, other than the procedural mechanisms, other than the proof that 4 trials have been held which all led to cleaning soap bubbles, one has to wonder if Italian justice has nothing else to do apart from rehash a hackneyed story. A narrative, it needs to be remembered, through which there isn’t any offended individual (nobody has filed a criticism) however on which first a media “case” following which the trial of the century have been constructed: in reality, the story of Ruby Rubacuori happened , nearly the identical variety of trials that tried to reconstruct the overt and hidden obligations for the assassination of Aldo Moro. This comparability alone explains the enormity of the absurdity that has taken place.

Now we actually do not perceive the place this infernal mechanism needs to go. Above all, the explanation why in latest months the founding father of Forza Italia has ended up within the crosshairs of a sequence of judicial initiatives, even in demise. Judicial initiatives which, upon nearer inspection, excluding the standard justicial circles and newspapers, haven’t even had a lot media protection as a result of finally the posthumous persecution is jarring, it disturbs even those that have by no means been followers of the Knight. It might simply be a suggestion, a reckless theorem like these of which Berlusconi was typically the sufferer, however we might not need all this reverberation of consideration from the prosecutor’s workplaces in direction of the Cav to be the results of a conditioned reflex in opposition to those that are rightly or wrongly thought-regarding the inspirer of the justice reform, beginning with the proposal that so disturbs the caste which supplies for the separation of careers between judges and prosecutors. That identify evokes a reform for fairer justice, for a assure that also disturbs a sure kind of togas. Precisely, possibly it should simply be a improper impression, however mainly as Andreotti taught, pondering badly is a sin, however typically you get it proper.