WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI - Umanita Nova: Milan: Calabresi on the altars, and where is the left? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The Advisory Commission of the Municipality of Milan for the honors at

the Famedio has approved the names of the thirteen personalities who on
November 2nd will be inscribed - as every year - in the Pantheon inside
the Monumental Cemetery in addition to those who have brought prestige
to the city. ---- Among them is Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, a name
well known to the readers of this weekly (but obviously not only to
them). ---- The reasons for this choice are: «Luigi Calabresi, police
commissioner killed in 1972, victim of an attack that made him a symbol
of one of the most dramatic pages in Italian history, the 'years of
lead'. Calabresi, despite the political controversy that accompanied his
death, was a central figure for justice and legality».

Now, that a commission appointed by the center-left government defines
him in this way is simply shameful, since it completely overturns what
made him a symbol of one of the dramatic pages of Italian history: not
so much his assassination as the political, judicial and police frame-up
of the Piazza Fontana massacre supported by the indictment of Valpreda
and his companions and the murder of Giuseppe Pinelli at the police station.

The political controversy certainly did not accompany his death, but
rather the role that the heads of the police and the secret services
played - in the massacre season - on the instructions of political
representatives of the State and government, as a rich literature
(books, essays, memoirs, articles, etc.) has well documented in more
than half a century of counter-information.

Then, with the definition of the commissioner as a "central figure for
justice and legality" we arrive at the apotheosis of hypocrisy. It was
in his office that Pinelli was held well beyond the limits of the law,
he was subjected to heavy interrogations, it was from that window that
he was made to fall. It was in that police station that it was claimed
that Pinelli had thrown himself shouting: 'It's the end of anarchy',
accompanying the fact with imaginative and contradictory descriptions
(the famous shoe, among others), and that the presence of the highest
levels of the secret services (the famous 'Reserved Affairs Office' of
Umberto D'Amato) was kept quiet. Where was Calabresi if not to endorse
with his presence all the filth said?

Not to mention his role in building the accusation against the comrades
accused of the bombs at the Trade Fair and the Exchange Office of the
Central Station in April 1969, using and manipulating a witness like
Zublena, bombs planted by the Nazi-fascists of Ordine Nuovo.

If this is an example of justice and legality...

What is certain is that, after more than half a century, those who have
committed themselves to the slow reconstruction of the figure of the
commissioner have succeeded in their intent; the next step will be that
of beatification.

History, they say, is written by those who win; in this case it is
written on the misery of those who have sold off their memory and their
conscience, forgetting among other things that those who have no memory
have no future either.

Massimo Varengo

https://umanitanova.org/milano-calabresi-sugli-altari-e-la-sinistra-dove/
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