So Ustica be returned to the general's honor.
at all, and without much distinction.
Sure, you could talk to requirements and lack of evidence of crimes
declassified, whatever. Read the sentence a bit 'of
sideways, to catch some shade perhaps not exactly uplifting,
some stain on the bottom of the sentence that even high-speed
of this appeal process has been able to wash.
But what remains in the end?
Twenty-five years of investigations and two trials tell us something?
We are told that if false leads, omissions, and lies there were deviations,
is not to them - at the top of the state
Italian Air Force in 1980 - that we need to account. There is not a high
official who has missed a comma. Let alone down the chute
the organizational hierarchy.
at this point, what to expect family members of those eighty dead? Mica
him must go the Court of Assizes, the address of the door
just to help you get a response. What matters now is to know really
in this story that the institutions have worked to
their best.
in efficiency, honesty, transparency in. everyone has done their homework,
national sovereignty is respected.
For once we can say that this country does not look at anyone and can look in the mirror
head on. Enough to be proud of.
Of course, when the DC-9 Itavia exploded in the sky of Ustica, was the Air Force Military
to manage the Italian airspace. People in uniform, trained. Mica
any civilian controllers. Sure, it seemed logical that it was just
Military Aeronautics at having to tell the truth.
without embarrassment and without "do not memory. " Sure, they could be our allies
to explain all of whom were ghost hunting in flight that night. He is left to cry Prinon
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but, during and after the massacre. Sure, there were no radar at Palazzo Chigi. Nor
al Quirinale. Sure, some jokes will be unfortunate passing.
few pages of the register will have been cut (and unreported) as
used at school, with the blade. Some records will be gone missing. Some
tape destroyed. Someone will have been intimidated,
someone else will be dead. the rate of heart attacks and suicides is increasing in Italy, which
you can do? Of course has been a bomb and a missile to bring down the plane
. Who should resent mass? Mah But why? Boh.
happen a lot of strange and unexplained things in the world. in Italy,
a bit 'more. But for this you can not mount a campaign of suspicion.
if nothing is nothing, the result is zero. It was already clear five years ago,
or not?
They say to know more about this massacre would take
the political will to move to the point. It would take a government capable of knocking
the tent of Colonel Gaddafi, the door of the White House to the Elysée
. They say that Colonel Qaddafi has admitted
Libyan state television of all responsibility for attacks on the Jumbo
Panam Lockerbie and the DC-10 Uta
in the sky of Chad. They also say that for Ustica has repeated that he had nothing to do
nothing. Indeed, the Libyans were victims of the massacre that night
much as the passengers of the DC-9 Itavia (by the way, the ambassador to Tripoli
's got a TV?). But Palazzo Chigi
no one has ever asked to repeat it to an Italian magistrate. And
explain everything else he knows.
say that Italy has played a crucial role in negotiating
has allowed the Colonel to leave the long embargo imposed by the community for terrorism
International. With so many compliments from
Washington and Paris. And then on
Ustica? Who will do it to him the first question?
or someone is afraid that we cut in retaliation for oil and gas, with all the trouble that would lead
on the level of
mocha on the stove for coffee in the morning?
if they say a lot about Ustica. But it would be time to stop
bother with this history of the aircraft shot down.
only one last thing.
listened to the process that returned the honor of the generals.
The sentence of a man "in my life I made one mistake: they are not
boarded the plane. I wanted to die too, with my children. was hard
continue to live. "
What I will say now to this man?
Come on, it was fine ...
(this is an article by Andrea Purgatori Unit published on 16 December 2006 and brought together with other interventions in COSD the recent reissue of Ustica, War scenarios, screenplay by Leonora Sartori, drawings by Andrea Vivaldo, a project curated by Fabrizio Colarieti Editions Beccogiallo.)
are now 30 years since the DC9 left from Bologna to Palermo and has descended into the sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica bringing with it 81 lives.
