Yesterday, Minister Gentiloni in an interview with Mix24 on Radio24, referring to the story of the two Marò, made clarifications perhaps induced in him, neophyte of the responsibility of the MAE, by lack of information on what happened in these three years and in particular in that fateful March 2013 when they were returned to the undue judgment of India.
In this regard, therefore, I feel the need to re-propose a document that I believe offers a complete picture of what happened in those days, dated 18 March 2013 and filed on the Farnesina website at the following link.Only two reminders on the contents. The press release issued by a state institution is titled "Marò: government press release" which is never denied by the then Premier Senator Monti and from which none of the ministers in office dissociated, in which the passages that led to to decide not to send the two Navy Fusiliers back to India. In particular, "For these reasons, the Italian government has come to the determination, after having long committed to an amicable solution to the question - in which we still firmly believe - to formalize the opening of an international dispute on 11 March".
The decision, therefore, to send them back to India the 22 March 2013 denying the 18 statement and renouncing the international Arbitration, can only be attributed to those in the Government had the responsibility to decide and change the initial approach to the problem.
So, in addition to Minister Gentiloni's statements that deserve further study, yesterday's note from "Italia Unica" seems to be inaccurate, which through an agency informs: "Regarding the affirmations of the Honorable Giorgia Meloni regarding the affair of the marines, once it is necessary to specify that the two Navy riflemen were sent back to India on the basis of a unanimous decision of the Council of Ministers ". In fact, if there was a Council of Ministers, the entirety of the decision does not appear to be such considering the position of the then Minister Terzi who, on March 26, 2013, resigned because he was precisely against the decision to send the two Maròs back to India.
It is legitimate, therefore, to deduce that the unanimity affirmed by "Unica Italia" was not such, and therefore, the affirmation reported in the same Agency is also risky where it is written "The honorable Meloni, therefore, leaning on unilateral responsibilities" at the same Monti and at the then Minister Passera, affirms the false "(Rai / Dire 19: 49 14-04-15).
Controversies that do not contribute to clarify the fact but that make it even more obscure the story that instead would be desirable to be addressed and evaluated by a parliamentary inquiry committee as long desired by many.
A vain hope, while news arrives that in almost real time yet another Parliamentary Commission is being set up to investigate the damage of Depleted Uranium as if the negative effects together with the pollution by fine particles of heavy metals that characterize the areas had not by now been established. of conflict, from the sad reality of about 390 dead and more than 3800 sick.
Another decision that makes us understand what the institutional attention is for the Italian military and therefore perhaps also the reason why our two Maros are still hostage to India for more than three years.
Fernando Termentini
