Adriano Prosperi on the lack of justice in Italy

The jury court of the Italian city of Brescia on Tuesday acquitted five defendants accused of carrying out a bomb attack for lack of evidence. The right-wing extremist attack carried out at a trade union rally in Brescia in 1974 left 8 people dead and 103 injured. This judgement leaves those responsible for the crime unpunished 36 years after it was committed. Adriano Posperi criticises in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica Italy's failure to ensure that justice is done: "The lack of justice is to blame for this picture of Italy we all see before us. The necessary steps for Italians to reconcile with their country have not been taken. Lofty words, on the other hand, have been wasted - there was even talk of the forming of a collective memory. But the plastic surgery of a magician cannot heal the wrinkles and fractures on the body of the country. These fractures lie far deeper. ... While the terrorist attack at Ground Zero has welded together the US and has led the country into a war venture against an external enemy, the opposite has happened in Italy. The enemy has remained hidden within the country and ... with this ruling the legal quest for the truth has been discontinued once and for all."

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