As had already happened in 2008 – when France had granted the extradition to Italy of the former brigatista Marina Petrella by unleashing demonstrations in Paris until the government stepped back – French intellectuals took to the field in defense of the Italian terrorists sheltered across the Alps. They did so with a collective and public letter addressed to President Emmanuel Macron: among the signatories there is also Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the naturalized French Italian actress and director and sister of Carla Bruni Sarkozy.
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In the appeal letter, published today on Release, they recall the spirit of the Mitterand Doctrine, according to which “Italian far-left activists engaged in political violence in the 1970s were welcomed into our country with the express condition of abandoning all illegal activities”. A decision taken by a president on which, in the opinion of the signatories, “we cannot go back in time or change events”.
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“Forty years ago – they write – several dozen people came out of hiding, laid down their weapons, had their files examined by the highest authorities of the French intelligence, police and justice services: their stay in France was accepted, then formalized by the issue of residence permits “.
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“Some – continues the appeal – got married, thus creating dual nationality couples, many had children who are now French citizens, sometimes grandchildren, also French. They have contributed to national wealth through their work for several decades, some have even been employed by the French state. All have kept their commitment to renounce violence. “
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Intellectuals recall that these are “people who are now between 65 and 80 years old” with all the ailments related to their age, and argue that “some in Italy use them as comfortable scarecrows for internal political purposes that do not concern us. Their campaign is tantamount to accusing dozens of officials from our administrative services, the police, the justice system and the administration of the French Republic of having, for forty years, protected the murderers “.
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“In August 2019 – they write – at Salvini’s instigation, Italy ratified the European Convention on Extradition between Member States of the European Union, which it had been careful not to sign since 1996. This initiative had the sole objective of canceling of French decisions relating to these persons. According to our legal regulations, the files in question are all prescribed and cannot give rise to extradition after forty or even fifty years from the fact. from a dictatorship in the Middle East is to show a relativism that can only cheer the deniers “.
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They cite Aeschylus’ Oresteia, who “wanders in exile hunted by the goddesses of revenge” after killing his mother, but who said: “I am no longer a supplicant with impure hands: my stain is erased in contact with the men they welcomed me into their homes or that I met on the street “. Time and exile have “a purifying power”, in short, and “at the end of the work Athena makes a decision more like an amnesty than an acquittal. The cycle of revenge is over, the cycle of justice arrives. “.
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But revenge, they argue, “is back on the agenda” because “it is a tool to manipulate opinion and disturb conscience”, while “the Italian far right, responsible for two-thirds of the deaths of the years of lead, dare to speak on behalf of the victims “.
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“Mr. President – is the final gloss of the intellectuals’ appeal – it would probably take Athena to convince the Italian Parliament to approve the long-awaited amnesty law, which would allow Italian society to turn the page and look to the future”. But, in their opinion, it is necessary to “maintain France’s commitment to the Italian exiles, their children, their French families. The decision to extradite them cannot be a technical question. It is a political question. Reason and reason. humanism are the basis of our democracies, it is not good to add unhappiness unnecessarily to unhappiness “. The invitation, therefore, is to Macron: “You can quote to your transalpine interlocutors this verse that Aeschylus once put in Athena’s mouth: ‘You want to pass for right rather than act justly'”.
Here is the list of signatories: Agnès B., Jean-Christophe Bailly, Charles Berling, Irène Bonnaud, Nicolas Bouchaud, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Cadiot, Sylvain Creuzevault, Georges Didi-Huberman, Valérie Dréville, Annie Ernaux, Costa-Gavras, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Guiraudie, Célia Houdart, Matthias Langhoff, Edouard Louis, Philippe Mangeot, Maguy Marin, Gérard Mordillat, Stanislas Nordey, Olivier Neveux, Yves Pagès, Hervé Pierre, Ernest Pignon-Ernest, Denis Podalydès, Adeline Rosenstein, Jean-François Sivadier, Eric Vuillard , Sophie Wahnich, Martin Winckler.
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