Lynch justice damages new state

The circumstances of the death of Muammar al-Gaddafi are still unclear but it seems he probably wasn't killed in battle. Lynch justice is the wrong basis for a young state, writes the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera: "Gaddafi's mangled corpse is the worst start to a new liberated Libya. Not an act of war, not a commando operation like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, but a debased act marks this new beginning. An act of revenge that is accompanied by the angry cries of the enraged mob. However it wasn't the tragic execution of a tyrant that the mob witnessed but the defiling of a symbol that should be scorned and destroyed. ... Yet all the torment Gaddafi's torturers inflicted on the Libyan people still cannot justify the brutality with which a cruel and inhuman tyranny ended yesterday."

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