I’m publishing a letter from Luigi Li Gotti, Undersecretary for Justice in Italia dei Valori, for the 35th anniversary of the death of the commissioner Luigi Calabresi.

“At 9:15 on 17 May 1972, in via Cherubini, Milan, the police commissioner Luigi Calabresi was killed.
The assassin attacked him by exploding two pistol shots to the neck and the back while the young commissioner was in the process of opening the door of his Fiat 500.
The people convicted for that crime were Ovidio Bompressi (the actual killer), Leonardo Marino (driving the get-away vehicle), Adriano Sofri and Giorgio Pietrostefani (the brains behind the crime).
This homicide was one of the murkiest pages of political terrorism in Italy. Luigi Calabresi had had death threats for years but he continued to perform his duties at the service of the State, the Law and the citizens.
The shameful lies written against him have a well identified source that is not denied.
In fact it was Adriano Sofri who wrote shameful and macabre texts.
The young commissioner was accused of being responsible for the death of Giuseppe Pinelli.
The magistracy ascertained that when Pinelli fell from the room on the fourth floor of the Milan Police Station, Calabresi was not even present.
In spite of that the newspaper Lotta Continua, directed by Adriano Sofri wrote that the absence o f Calabresi from that room had little importance and that the commissioner was anyway responsible to such an extent that his death was decreed.
The hate campaign did not end with the death of Luigi Calabresi because, for years and years, his name and his memory have been blurred by numerous so-called intellectuals and politicians.
Today the State and the institutions are reviving his memory and 35 years later, Milan is solemnly remembering his sacrifice.
Italia dei Valori bows when remembering an honest man, a loyal and faithful servant of the State.
Luigi Calabresi belongs to the history of our country and is an example of a great Italian.
That’s how we intend to remember and honour him.”

Luigi Li Gotti