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Bocca, Giorgio
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Italian muzzle leads to authoritarian democracy
The justice commission of the Italian Senate has approved a bill that restricts the bugging of telephone calls and bans such conversations from being published in the media. Should the law go into effect journalists could face heavy penalties for breaking it. The left-liberal daily La Repubblica is appalled: "Unlike the sultans who conceal the sword with which they attack their enemy the Cavaliere [Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi] wants everyone to know that it was he who used his money and power to clear the field of critical voices. ... Silvio Berlusconi is physically and intellectually the opposite of the great dictators of the past century. A comparison with Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin wouldn't even be worthy material for second-rate theatre. He built by legal means a media empire with all the legal privileges and encroachments which big property developers like him are so adept at achieving. But those who oppose the system, those who get in the way, must step aside. This is what is called an authoritarian democracy."
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Capital punishment and the end of dictatorships
Following the execution of Saddam Hussein, the Italian government has asked the United Nations to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty. This request has provoked a riposte from the Iraqi government, recalling the fate of the former Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, who was killed in 1945 after a sham of a trial. Along with the rest of the Italian press, the editorialist Girogio Brocca contests this historical parallel. "Mussolini's execution can only be roughly assimilated with Saddam Hussein's hanging. The death of Mussolini marked the dramatic and violent epilogue of a tyranny and set a country free ... . The barbaric execution of Saddam Hussein is not the beginning of liberation, it is not going to stop the perpetuation of terror and violence. It is in this sense that we can consider this execution an error".
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An upsurge of crime in Naples
The journalist and writer Giorgio Bocca analyses the strong-hold of the Camorra, the local mafia, on the city. "Crime has won for the time being. Naples has hit rock bottom. It has reached the limit beyond which any cohabitation is impossible. Naples has something that most Italian towns do not know: mass-poverty. Like in Alexandria, in Bombay, in Calcutta, where an endless number of people survive, rather than live, where every day, enormous crowds of people go looking for survival without really knowing where to find it. In Milan and in Turin, there is poverty, but in Naples mass-poverty is the natural ally of delinquency ... . The Camorra has a decisive function in this city: to guarantee the survival of marginal people. The forms of complicity with the Camorra that has appropriated an immense majority of Neapolitan public property are innumerable, infinite and above all unthinking."
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Request for the exhumation of Mussolini's body
One of Mussolini's grandsons is asking for the body of the 'Duce' to be dug up in order to elucidate the circumstances of his death. According to History books, The Duce was captured and executed by Italian partisans on April 28th, 1945. The Italian journalist and writer Giorgio Bocca opposes this request. "The Duce's body was fascism, it would have been something quite different ... The request for the exhumation of a corpse useless and stupid. It does not matter if the Duce was shot in front of the railings of a villa on the Come lake or if he died naked in his bedroom where he had just spent his last night. This grandson of the Duce, Guido, having reached retirement age, still has not understood why Italians, us 'dirty partisan pigs', could have killed his grandfather who was the father of the nation, the most handsome, the most powerful and the most adored of the time of our youth."
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