In a few days it will be three years since two of our non-commissioned officers Fucilieri of Marina Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, are hostage to India by proxy of Italy. Yesterday for the first time the European Parliament by a large majority admitted that legal competence is a right of Italian Italy and admitted the opportunity for international arbitration to start.
Three years during which the lack of information on the part of the main national media was often reluctant to talk about the matter, the events that had caused it, the possible reasons that could condition its solution above all for the blatant sale of the Italian national sovereignty, in spite of the fact that International Law and the Law of the Sea gave Italy extensive prerogatives for the management of the fate of two of our fellow citizens.
Three presidents of the council, four foreign ministers have succeeded in these three years, but no one has proposed clear solutions in full compliance with international standards as yesterday unequivocally affirmed by the European parliament. Never a clarification or a political motivation on the reason for the obstinacy not to start an international arbitration, rather frequent solicitations from the institutional summits to make silence.
Lawful, therefore, a doubt. Perhaps an international controversy could have brought about uncomfortable truths around the case precisely for those economic lobbies that perhaps contributed that famous 22 March 2013 to the decision to postpone the marines in India. Hypothesis is considered not too fanciful if it were confirmed the existence, as reported and not denied by a well-known national newspaper, a letter dated 15 March 2013, sent to premier Mario Monti and signed by the president of Confindustria Giorgio Squinzi. A letter that might have been a rather convincing reason to send Girone and Latorre back to New Delhi, at least, as we said in those days, to "avoid serious economic repercussions" on the Made in Italy.
Not only economic interests but also personal events, perhaps totally random but still temporally linked to the events in question. Career advances of officials with a precise decision-making role and for certain aspects crucial at the time of the events; the former premier of that time who could be running for the Quirinale; former ministers are about to start new experiences through political aggregations that could include some of the economic lobbies involved that famous March 2013.
Personal vicissitudes, international plots like that of Finmeccanica's helicopters, but also other economic interests with India, remained in the shadows so far, which slowly emerge from the darkness of the bad information that characterized the case.
Among the many a surprising and disturbing discovery: despite the prohibitions in force by the 1992, Italy has imported - coincidentally precisely in 2012 - huge quantities of asbestos from India, even as the largest importer with 1040 tons. It's all written in official documents. The figure was also confirmed by the Customs Agency. (Source La Stampa: http://www.lastampa.it/2015/01/11/italia/cronache/torino-il-giallo-della...).
An import that the 257 law of 27 March 1992 prohibits, while providing for limited exemptions to be authorized by the ministry. Perhaps the minister of economic development at the time, dott. Corrado Passera, could clarify something.
Moreover, asbestos was used in components of combat helicopters built by the Augusta of the Finmeccanica Group and also appears on Navy ships. On this aspect should know all the former Minister of defense of the Government Monti, Admiral Gianpaolo Di Paola former former Secretary General of Defense and Director of Armaments and as such responsible for the activities of research and technological development, as well as the procurement of systems weapon and chairman of the advisory committee for the examination of the most important arms contracts. Later also head of the General Staff of Defense.
Not only. The Indian ministry of defense has recently approved a supply from 243.5 million dollars for the purchase of naval gunner by the Italian OTO MELARA, the only bidder. An offer that dates back to November 2913.
New business and old business between Italy and India like that of Colaninno in the 2011 managed to place well 200 thousand vehicles of the Piaggio, especially appreciated by the female public and poor Indians forced to pull the ricksha between the sacred cows.
These are in brief some of the important points that revolve around the story of the two marines and that after three years a democratic country should clarify the sovereign people, perhaps through the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry.
Fernando Termentini
