17 February 2007

State Abduction

The judicial investigation of the Italian agents together with their American colleagues for the abduction of Abu Omar, is an action which does not have political weight and nor should it have.
In applying national laws, and more generally in applying principles that protect human rights, the magistracy is bound to verify whether in the behaviour of both Italians and foreigners, there is the basis of a true kidnapping that took place on our territory.
A crime is a crime and no one can allow themselves to ignore it, even in the presence of the higher needs of the State.
Particularly when someone is abducted so that they can be tortured to get a confession from them.
Anyone who mixes up justice with politics, trying to criminalize the magistrates and every citizen who wants the law to win out, is in complete bad faith. The Magistracy is bound to verify the truth of the facts.
If someone has good justification to explain their behaviour then the procedures of a trial are the appropriate way of making their defence known. Let there be a serene process of justice that ascertains what crimes have been committed and who carried them out. Allow the Milan magistracy to do their work without putting up obstacles. One such obstacle, today, is serious. It is to not allow the execution of the extradition order.
Every blockage to the ascertainment of the truth must be removed as soon as possible.
The government must give an immediate and concrete response to the request of the Magistracy unless it wants to appear as an accomplice to a situation that is completely anomalous for a State based on rights.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice