The Italian press greeted in unison Thursday April 29 the arrest the day before of ex-members of the Red Brigades refugees in France, a step forward for "
justice and reconciliation
" which should allow turning the page of the years of lead.
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"
End of the run
", headlines Il Messaggero, which publishes in front page the portraits of the seven former members of the Red Brigades arrested Wednesday on French territory. “
Justice has passed. It always ends up catching up with you
, ”welcomes General Paolo Galvaligi in the columns of the Roman daily, son of the general of the Carabinieri Enrico Galvaligi who was assassinated in 1908.“ A
year of lead: the wound healed
”, writes La Stampa.
The Turin newspaper hails “
justice for the victims
” and also gives a voice to families. "
They killed my brother and then lived the good life
", regrets Maurizio Campagna, brother of Andrea, a police officer who fell under the bullets of the red brigadists in 1979 in Milan. "
He was the same age as his assassins, but he believed in the state,
" he notes. "
Year of lead: last act
", notes La Repubblica, which has chosen on the front page the photo of a crime scene in black and white, with on the asphalt a handgun equipped with a silencer and shell casings. . The center-left daily devotes six full pages to the arrest of the “
red shadows of Paris
”.
"
A taboo has fallen
"
Victims and politicians hailed the "
end of the Mitterrand doctrine
", named after President François Mitterrand who, in 1985, pledged not to extradite former Italian far-left activists who had broken with their past.
"
A taboo has fallen and we can finally talk more about a united Europe
", analyzes the son of General Galvaligi in Il Messaggero.
The Italian press returns at length to "
the turn
" of French President Emmanuel Macron in the case of ex-brigadist refugees in France. In La Repubblica, the Italian Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, assures us that it is “
the thirst for justice and reconciliation that has won, not the vendetta
”. "
France has fully understood what injury Italy had suffered in the years of lead and for the first time removed the political and legal obstacles to the Mitterrand doctrine
", she underlines. "
With this historic step, France confirms its confidence in Italian institutions
" and helps "to
close a heartbreaking page
" in the recent history of Italy, according to the minister.
The newspaper also gathered the reactions of former political comrades of the seven Italians arrested and the three others still at large. "
In the decades which followed their exile in France, not one, if I am not mistaken, not one of the convicts committed a single offense
", observes Adriano Sofri, former head of the small group "
Lotta Continued
" (Struggle continues) by denouncing "
a raid
". According to La Repubblica, Oreste Calzone, former founder of Workers' Powers, has announced that he is going on hunger strike.
Il Corriere della Serra notes that if “
the promise
” of the French Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, “
has been kept
”, it is only at the political level for the moment. "
On the fate of ex-terrorists arrested beyond the Alps is now opening a judicial part with an uncertain outcome
," warns the newspaper.
