In two days is the second anniversary of the most terrible betrayal that a nation has ever made against its citizens with military status. I am referring to that March 22, 2013 when the former Premier Monti suddenly decided to send Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore back to India, perhaps recommended by those who wanted to defend economic lobbies committed to "trafficking" with Delhi and by those who hoped to earn a respectable future. at the end of the institutional mandate.
A real about-face after 11 and 18 March of the same year it was announced that Latorre and Girone would remain in Italy. A deception which revolves around unclear interests as legitimate to think after following the facts from the first day. Relevant aspect of the whole story that the lawyer Mauro Mellini proposes to us with juridical and writer sagacity with the article “I MARO 'IN OSTAGGIO. FOR WHO ?" (www.giustiziagiusta.info).
It is not hazardous to say that we are faced with an agreed drama between Italy and India that revolves around the fate of two of our soldiers left by the state in disarray and at the mercy of an Indian justice that without reasons and without having yet produced evidence of guilt, continues to postpone the trial against Massimiliano and Salvatore, "sent back by Herod to Pilate" as Mellini effectively stigmatizes in his article.
A situation that originates, as Mellini well reminds us, “precisely because the Monti Government did not follow up on that“ detention operation ”, developed by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Terzi di Sant'Agata and defeated, after it had been announced "urbi et orbi" with a widely motivated statement sent to all Italian diplomatic representations in the world ".
From that moment on, words have taken the place of facts. Though sporadic statements by a President of the Republic, three Prime Minister and four Foreign Ministers and various Undersecretaries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, committed only to recommending silence and confidentiality.
Solicitation absolutely accepted by almost all the Italian media, ready to sound the trumpets when it had to be announced that it had decided to resort to an international arbitration that was never formalized, to then return to absolute silence. And in the meantime three years have passed since events and two since March 18, 2013 the Government announced that it would resort to international arbitration (v.link), to then betray the expectations of the two Navy Fusiliers and their families.
From that moment on, only talk as promises announced and not kept, concluded days ago with the announcement of the "appeal to the UN of Italy". Unreliable information disclosed through the sudden awakening of journalists from the most authoritative Agencies.
Minister Gentiloni, in reality, as Avv. Mellini in his work, had declared that he had spoken of the Marò to the Secretary of the UN, asking him to consider the possibility of an action by Italy "greatly interested in the question, to obtain an intervention (another .. !!) of the 'UN ”to“ examine the possibility of such an intervention ”, confirming its diplomatic style already expressed on other occasions: relying on someone's help and benevolence.
At this point, precisely on the occasion of the anniversary of the state's turnaround towards the two soldiers, it is clear that something indecent is taking place and together with Mauro we all ask ourselves "What is behind it?".
By now Latorre and Girone are hostages in the hands of a foreign government, in a condition desired by Italy two years ago, an Italy that in the meantime has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to compensate for damages whose paternity has yet to be proven and which continues to show awe and subjection towards India.
Why does this happen? Economic agreements agreed upon and not respected, rather than bribes promised and not actually paid?
The doubt arises and is nourished by reading what Mellini tells us in your article: "Court of Busto Arsizio which acquitted the top management of Finmeccanica from the crime of international corruption for bribes to Indian rulers and military to" lubricate "a contract for the supply of Agusta helicopters. Condemning them, however, for having "put aside", falsifying the budgets, the nest egg necessary to pay them ".
Certainly not everything is clear, at least for me, as I am more and more convinced that it is a connection with what happened two years ago suggesting to send the Marò back to India.
Thinking badly makes you sin but often gets it right and I prefer to be considered as the one who gives body to the shadows, rather than keeping silent to respect the silence of the regime.
Fernando Termentini
