“Nel 2009, all’indomani dell'improvvida decision of the then Brazilian Minister of Justice to grant the status of political refugee Cesare Battisti, a lot of us in mobilizing to prevent the release of terrorist action while taking urgent information direct to the Brazilian authorities to the real contours of the story historical and political case that led to the conviction of the same Baptist by the Italian judiciary.
The Italian public was understandably terrified and can be ventilated before the release of the terrorist and all political forces represented in Parliament was activated immediately to lift high the voice of republican institutions to defend the rule of law and democracy that the cynical and violent attacks to which Cesare Battisti had participated in the 70 tried to intimidate and destabilize.
The Parliament passed a motion so that re-united with their just and legitimate force of the Italian request to ask Brazil to extradite Battisti and myself along with Vice Chairman of the House Hon Maurice Wolves went on an official mission to Brazil to meet our Brazilian colleagues.
meet the then President of the Chamber and now Vice President of Brazil Michel fear which, in the name of the Italian Parliament, renew this invitation, in accordance with their respective powers and with the firm intention to maintain steady and strong historians legami tra i due Paesi.
Mentre il Parlamento faceva la sua parte il Capo del governo italiano incontrava per ben due volte il Presidente brasiliano Luis Inacio Lula da Silva; in nessuno dei due incontri avuti con il suo omologo brasiliano Silvio Berlusconi ha affrontato in maniera diretta e decisa la questione, come sarebbe stato opportuno e anche prevedibile che accadesse.
Gli interventi del Presidente del Consiglio e del governo sono avvenuti così soltanto a cose fatte e a rimorchio delle polemiche giornalistiche e delle proteste dell’opinione pubblica.
Il Parlamento e il Presidente della Repubblica hanno fatto sentire in maniera tanto chiara e forte quanto corretta e rispettosa la loro voce a riguardo; dall’altro lato il governo agiva con approximation and distraction, as with the weapon of propaganda that targeted actions and gestures.
Following the latest decision of the former President of Brazil, I think - as authoritatively supported the distinguished jurist Antonio Cassese - "a possible solution could be found only when Italy and Brazil, along with intelligence, cooperation and civility, renounce all propaganda to choose a path of justice and political maturity. "
In this sense, the proposal to create a Conciliation Commission between Italy and Brazil in 1954 and as set out under the auspices of the Court in The Hague could be a way useful to a serious solution to the dispute.
relations between Italy and Brazil are much stronger than a legal dispute, however serious and delicate as this: they are rooted epic of millions of our countrymen in over a century have chosen that country as their new land, and today there are over thirty million Brazilians of Italian descent to join and is increasingly becoming the future of our two countries, not just our common past.
's why the "case Baptists" can and should be a starting point to reopen and restart this necessary and fruitful dialogue, not a rather unfortunate end point of a glorious history.
I am sure that the two Presidents of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano and Dilma Rousseff, will be with wisdom and foresight of the authors and this called for urgent new beginning. "
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