Do we have the courage to say how things really are? Maybe after the murder of Sharon Verzeni and the outcome of the investigation by the Carabinieri and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Yes, because things are more or less like this: Italy is full of scoundrels, most of whom are illegal immigrants or Italian citizens with family origins in North Africa or the Middle East. Is it unpleasant to put it in these terms? Does it clash with a sentiment, as noble as it is approximate, of denying differences at all costs? Does it contradict the widespread tendency to use the tool of political correctness to describe everything that happens around us, especially when it is unpleasant or even criminal?
Of course, yes. Facing reality after this latest bloody event requires us to ignore the whole do-gooder apparatus that we often hide behind, and choose the path of frankness and the bitter search for objective truth. We will shortly get to the facts that emerged in the Bergamo investigation in the last few hours. To do so, however, we must remember the dramatic news released by the American security services in recent days, news that led the Austrian authorities to suspend the scheduled concerts of the American star Taylor Swift, whose performances were postponed in light of the investigative results that made clear the preparation of a terrifying Islamic-style attack, an attack prepared down to the smallest details with the aim of taking out hundreds of ports. And we must also recall the incredible story of the twenty-six-year-old Syrian who killed three people with a dagger in Germany a few days ago. An illegal immigrant who flouted the expulsion order by letting its terms expire, only to end up in assistance programs paid for by the German taxpayer. Support that he repaid by killing in the name of a loudly proclaimed Islam, thus repaying with his death those German citizens who with their taxes had long helped him to live with dignity.
In Italy, a noble debate has opened on citizenship for foreigners. The issue is serious and our country has every interest in attracting women and men in search of a better future, willing to work, pay taxes, respect the laws, consider themselves welcome guests in a country with its culture, its tradition, its history. But this does not mean accepting as a necessary evil that multitude of vagrants who live by their wits among us. Let’s go back now to the events in Bergamo because we need to talk for a moment about this Mussa Sangare. A 31-year-old man born in Italy, an Italian citizen, with his African origins. But above all, a man reported by his mother and sister a few months ago for violent acts. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to understand that if your family reports you, it means we are at the height of a sequence of violence and dangerous acts: who knows how many times in the past they have forgiven him. A man without a job, perhaps in need of psychiatric assistance. But capable of living alone, going out one night with four knives on him, capable of killing a defenseless woman and then taking many actions to try not to be discovered. In short, a man who was lucid up until the moment of the crime and then very lucid in the hours that followed. The court will decide on the possible sentence, but we can say that this crime adds to the long list of disasters caused by this great mass of thugs who populate our streets: those who do not see them have, evidently, the sole purpose of not seeing them.
This condition, which concerns our train stations, subway stops, supermarket parking lots after closing time, the squares and streets of metropolises, cities and even small towns, the surroundings of night pharmacies, the too many occupied buildings put to profit by criminal organizations, creates a favorable context for the thugs we are talking about, not only because it makes them feel part of a pack capable of always and in any case escaping compliance with the rules, but also because it involves hundreds of women and men of the police force every day engaged in endlessly arresting and re-arresting more or less always the same people. Certainly poor Sharon found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and fate rowed against her in an unfortunately decisive way. But the profile of the murderer speaks to our consciences and reminds us that the first duty of a civil society is to make people who behave well safe. Instead we continue to tolerate the wrong behavior of the wrong people, allowing them to feel elusive and immune to the law. Here too, however, we must have the courage to say that in most cases these attitudes come from non-Italians (and let’s leave aside the formal aspects of citizenship), almost always coming from North Africa or Middle Eastern countries.
Coincidentally, it is never a Chinese person who ends up in a mess like this, nor a Filipino or a Peruvian. Here too we are going beyond political correctness: from those countries people leave for Europe with a life plan and a plane ticket, while the clandestine route by sea in the Mediterranean is often chosen by people who have to settle accounts with their own country for unmentionable reasons. On Sunday, there will be elections in two German regions. If Europe wants to avoid further exacerbating the feelings of women and men of good will, a radical change is needed on the subject of immigration. Not based on skin color but on a criterion that is as banal as it is effective. Decent people are welcome, all those who break the law are sanctioned and expelled, perhaps even for a minor crime. More or less what the socialist German Chancellor, one of the many “repentants” on the matter, has been talking about for a few days. It is a possible change, all that is needed is the will.
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2024-09-02 00:46:56
