Mauro Mellini
Ed. Bonfirraro
pp. 128
"The Marò market"Is a work that narrates the management of an" all-Italian "international event, as defined by l'author of the book l'lawyer Mauro Mellini, proposing the analysis of an absurd affair, perhaps unique in the modern history of a state of law which should be Italy, home of ancient legal, historical and cultural traditions.
A text that stigmatizes l'absence of the State in dealing with events that after moreù of 1000 days still have obscure points.
It is the evident story of how l'Italy has delegated its sovereign functions to a Third State, entrusting the management of a'judicial action against two Italian soldiers, two non-commissioned officers of the Italian Navy, Fucilieri of the prestigious S.Marco Brigade, appointed by the Parliament to carry out tasks to combat maritime piracy.
A story that offers us a drama involving two Italian citizens and their families and that hides "truthà hidden ", those that the 22 March 2013 have suggested to the Government Monti to give course to the'passive extradition of two of our countrymen, delivering them into the hands of a country where the death penalty is expected. A'action of "dissuasive contrast", that of the two non-commissioned officers in charge of ensuring anti-piracy protection to a ship flying the Italian flag and sailing in international waters, during which two poor Indian fishermen were killed as claimed, but never tried, by the Indian Federal State of Kerala.
The Marò market he proposes page after page these and other doubts to which after 1000 days has not yet been given a logical and convincing answer. Rather, they confirm that the State is denying any protection to two of its citizens, who are holders of a particular "status", that of servicemen. Perplexities never clarified since the day after the events, the 16 February 2012, when a Military Command consented that the'The ship's owner authorized the oil tanker to return to Indian territorial waters, effectively handing over the two Navy Riflemen to the Indian jurisdiction. An act of assent given on the Operational Command line never clarified and disclosed only the 17 October 2012 from the'then Minister of Defense Gianpaolo Di Paola, retired admiral. A clarification officialized by the minister after 8 months from the events, because forced to respond to a specific parliamentary question.
A text written by the lawyer Mellini, which also proposes ideas of a juridical nature that help to understand how the story of the two Navy Fucilieri, born from partly imprecise national legislative provisions, is carried out by the Institutions without any reference to International Law and to the Conventions on the law of the sea. An analysis also of the version of events, Indian and Italian, which helps to identify the dark sides of an affair that involves the two Maròs for over 1000 days.
An absolutely Italian and peculiarly Italian story, when news of international bribes suddenly overlap with events. Facts that, moreover, involve an important realityà Italian industry, Finmeccanica and that led to the institutional level to consider Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone "barter goods" with l'India, with an approach that the author rightly defines as "a true act of betrayal".
"The Marò market", not è, therefore, a text only narrative, but a real denunciation of the lack of effectiveness of how the institutions are managing a story of international resonance. It could be the text of the scenography of a tragicomedy in which actors and extras exchange roles without anything happening. IS'on the other hand, the report of a recent unfinished history dominated by the hypocrisy with which the fate of two of our fellow citizens was managed at various institutional levels up to an unprejudiced position of President Napolitano as the Supreme Head of the Armed Forces.
A text that also denounces l'unacceptable absence of the'Europe absolutely inattentive to the fate of the two European citizens by proposing the sad realityà that once the two Maròs have left again, they remain "businessmen and scoundrels".
The Marò market it is, in short, the story of an endless barter, where the bargaining goods are not the sacks filled with wheat or the fruit-filled canals of the past. Rather, two men, two Italian citizens guilty of serving the state, but the state abandoned for reasons still hidden. A bargain that lasts for more than 1000 days and after the resignation of the Ambassador Terzi and the end of the Government Monti is connoted, more and more, as a "bargaining in front of a glass of tea", in the best traditions of a Suck Arabic. Something unique in modern history and perhaps unrepeatable, where emerge, as well delineated in the text, Italian political figures that recognize in fact the Indian jurisdiction "agreeing" a modest sentence to be discounted in Italy. "A prize" for the two soldiers for having fulfilled their duty in compliance with the "rules d'engagement "and a need for self-defense".
A gloomy scenario in which possible personal interests emerge even from former ministers whose opinion was decisive when it was decided to give back to the age Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone that fateful 22 March 2013, now holders of prestige positions or next to assume political leadership.
Meanwhile, the "market" continues to the detriment of Italian national sovereignty and offers the world an increasingly timid Italy in asserting its rights and protecting those of its citizens.
The two Maros are far from their homeland and their families for almost three years, guilty only of having said "OBEDI" and, this, is no longer acceptable. It is time, instead, that the barter in progress is put into liquidation and Italy regains its historical, cultural and legal traditions, with solutions also suggested by the "The Marò market".
We must be grateful to the lawyer Mauro Mellini for having wanted to grapple with a hard task facing it without compromise, but privileging the maximum transparency and intellectual honesty, typical of those who reject the compromise by privileging the law. Thanks Mauro!
Fernando Termentini