(Message sent via email to the Prime Minister) Dear President, I had the opportunity to read your twitter launched at the time of the Indian Court's granting to Marina Massimiliano Latorre's Rifleman to be able to spend a 4-month convalescence in Italy.
While respecting your thoughts and opinions, two concepts summarized by you with the message particularly struck me. Contents on which I would like to discuss if only to be sure that I have well understood a reflection of the Prime Minister.
At the premise of everything I would like to compliment you with your ability to "capture" immediately the value of a person through only a couple of phone calls, I believe, however, in English. I refer to your appreciation for Narenda Modi.
A judgment is yours that leaves no doubt and for this reason it leaves me perplexed unless it arises from facts that are not given to me to know. In fact, the figure of President Modi, especially as regards his political ethics, does not seem to be based on a transparent and linear history.
A character who since his youth has played in a party of the extreme right-wing Indian Rashtriya swayamsevak sangh (Rss), a paramilitary organization with a distinctly nationalist connotation, to the point of being considered a person "disliked" by the US and the European Union.
Movement, as you well know, very controversial, outlawed in 1948, after the murder of Mohandas Gandhi, and then again in the seventies, when Modi was operating in hiding, banned for the third time in 1992 after the destruction of a mosque in Ayodhya, in the north of the country.
In those years Modi moved to the Bharatiya janata party (Bjp) in which the RSS also merged and in 2001 he was elected governor of the Indian state of Gujarat immediately highlighting his pragmatic approach to events to the point of not intervening when, in 2002 in Godhra in the state he administered, more than a thousand Muslims were killed by Hindu extremists and hundreds of thousands more forced to flee.
I therefore take note of your esteem for a man of these past, but my ethical man and former servant of the state do not allow me to share it and, at the same time, I distance myself from his words of appreciation of man and from his thanking and to respect the Government of a Nation that has been denying human and juridical rights to two Italian soldiers for three years.
A second perplexity arises from your declared collaboration with the Indian Justice which, in all honesty, arouse indignation in me, a citizen of a state of law, for various reasons.In fact, you have declared collaboration with a judicial system that provides for the application of death penalty, not expressing the thought of the man Renzi but that of the President of the Council of Italy whose Constitution denies the death penalty.
If, for you, collaborating means achieving a common goal with India, in this case represented by exercising an undue judgment on two Italian soldiers by a third state, I believe that your wish is also in contrast with the most elementary rules of international and treaty law.
I therefore beg to disagree with the confident SV that Italy still allows a modest citizen to be distant from the thought of its Premier, and that the elementary rights guaranteed by a liberal democracy such as the Italian one have not been canceled.
In fact, I cannot accept the concept of "collaboration" with a justice that denies our soldiers functional immunity, that disregards International Law and the Unclos Sea Convention and that provides for the detention of two people, albeit under provisional freedom, against which no evidence has yet been produced for the crimes charged to them.
Of course everyone is free to support what he believes in, but I think that there are constraints to be respected by at least those who hold high-caliber public functions such as yours. Italy is, in fact, a sovereign state heir and lover of Roman law borrowed over the centuries from several countries, historical and cultural traditions to which you often refer and tells us to want to defend. These values can not be erased by political pragmatism.
Dear President, collaborating with a Justice like the Indian one that is showing that it has forgotten the values of Anglo-Saxon law left as a legacy after 3 and a half centuries of British colonization, I believe it represents, instead, a stretch that cannot be accepted even for "reason policy". In this case, then, in my humble opinion, the recent declarations by the Indian Foreign Minister accompanied by his thanks to the Government of Delhi and the contents of the affidavit signed for the Latorre case, will preclude any future action on the international and diplomatic level to unravel the skein. We will only have to accept the decisions of the Indian Justice with which you prefer to collaborate.
I would like to read it together with the thousands of citizens of the Facebook group that I administer and to which I extend this for knowledge, and who are working hard to keep attention on the story of Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone (https://www.facebook.com/groups/337996802910475/) and of the other 387 that with me have signed an Exposed on the facts to the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome so that the responsibilities of anyone from 15 February 2012 to today are ascertained.
With best regards
Gen. Brig. (Ris) dr. Fernando Termentini
