The war against us

Florence 1993

In other countries of the world governments made and make war against their own citizens. In Iran, in Sri Lanka, Burma, and in many other places. A portion of the population suffers a severe repression for protesting against the government. In some countries the opponents are imprisoned, tortured, killed. But in Italy we had a phenomenon perhaps unique in the world. A nation that has practiced terrorism against its own citizens.

Although in many cases the perpetrators have never been found there is now little doubt that the most terrible massacres in Italy, from Portella della Ginestra, 11 dead, to Piazza Fontana, 16 dead, to Gioia Tauro, 6 dead, to Piazza della Loggia in Brescia, 8 dead, to the Italicus, 12 dead, to Ustica, 81 dead, until the station of Bologna, 85 dead, have been committed with the complicity of parts of the Italian secret services that helped those suspected of the massacres, often attributed to neo-fascists. One of the main suspects, Delfo Zorzi has fled since years in Japan, a country which does not provide for extradition, after a witness who accused him withdraw his declarations, it appears as a result of a payment received from an account linked to Fininvest, Berlusconi's media empire. For this story is also accused of aiding Gaetano Pecorella, former defender Zorzi, lawyer of Berlusconi and member of his party, proposed in 2008 as judge of the Constitutional Court and rejected by the parliament.

The massacre of 904 rapid, 17 dead, involved all merrily together mafia, fascist terrorism, P2, and the italian secret services. The head of Loggia P2 Licio Gelli was actually convicted in 2005 for attempts of diversionary manoeuvre in the investigation on the massacre in Bologna. The lists of P2 adherents as we know included politicians, high police officers and entrepreneurs such as the current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Then came the massacres attributed to the Mafia, Capaci and Via D'Amelio where the judges Falcone and Borsellino and 9 more people were killed, Via dei Georgofili in Florence, 5 dead, via Palestro in Milan, other 5 deaths, plus two more bombings in Rome, which caused no casualties.

Tomorrow will be 17 years since the death of Borsellino, and some mobsters turned informants today declare that the State and the Mafia were negotiating at that time, and there were men of the secret services involved in the killings and massacres of the mafia. Borsellino, who at that time was investigating the relationship between mafia and State, would have been killed because he strongly opposed such a truce. His red notebook, where he wrote thoughts and facts, was never found. A scenario from a black novel that in fact has already been told by Giancarlo De Cataldo in the book "In the right hands", but it is possible that the reality exceeds even the imagination.

If all these things are true it means that in Italy the secret services, or at least part of them, did not bother to defend citizens from terrorism, neo-fascism or Mafia, but they helped it, collaborated with killers and bombers in order to obtain political advantages, to distract the Italians from the problems of the country coalizing them against an internal enemy easy to hate.

In other countries, probably just the suspicion of such a criminal plot within the state would have caused a revolution. In Italy, however the strategy of tension has worked very well, has blinded the people and allowed the men who wanted to get their hands on the state to do as they please. Now you need no more bombs, the blood of the innocent, murders.

Now to blind the Italians all you need it's television.

Francesco Defferrari

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