President Emmanuel Macron arrested, on April 28, seven former members of the Italian terrorist organization of the Red Brigades, refugees for forty years in France.
A decision warmly welcomed by almost all of the Italian press, which is also indignant at the criticisms emitted by the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and a certain complacency on the part of certain intellectuals or French media. .
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“Justice has passed. It always catches up with you, "
welcomed in the columns
of Il Messaggero
General Paolo Galvaligi, son of General of the Carabinieri Enrico Galvaligi murdered in 1908.
" Lead year: the wound healed, "
wrote
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.
"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”
. In this center-left daily, the Italian Minister of Justice, Marta Cartabia, thus assured that it is
"the thirst for justice and reconciliation that has won, not revenge".
A spade directly sent to the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who said for his part
"distressed"
by the decision of Emmanuel Macron, even denouncing it
“An act of revenge more than an act of justice”.
For the Italian Minister of Justice
, on the contrary, "France has fully understood from 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", underlines she does.
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La Repubblica
also gives the floor to Benedetta Tobagi, a journalist whose father, himself a journalist, was murdered by a member of the “Brigate rosse”. In an article also entitled "justice, not revenge", she testifies:
"those who remember the bloodstains on the sidewalks and the almost daily count of the dead and wounded in the late 1970s, as well as those who have people directly affected by terrorism, in their flesh or in those around them, felt relief at the news, and even some satisfaction. Because this justice, as late and fragmentary as it is, it is also for all Italians that it is rendered, and not only for the victims and survivors. "
The right-wing daily
Libero,
for its part, is particularly harsh towards the daily
Le Monde
, which it describes as
"the daily of the left caviar"
in an article entitled
"the shame of the daily of the French left"
:
"the news of the arrest of the Italian Red terrorists taking refuge in France is worth no more than a brief of a few lines, and therefore, no title of Une.
While even President Emmanuel Macron spoke about it.
Moreover, we know very well that the French on the left have always protected and loved our brigadiers ”.
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The same newspaper is indignant at the tribune of a handful of intellectuals published in Liberation to call on President Macron to "keep France's commitment" vis-à-vis the Italian "exiles", referring to the famous "Mitterrand doctrine" - subject to different interpretations.
“Among them
(the intellectuals, Editor's note)
, is Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the right arm of the failed extradition of Marinella Petrella in 2008, refused by her brother-in-law Nicolas Sarkozy, at the time President. “,
Underlines the daily right-wing.