From one oxymoron to another, fortunately not only in Italy, considering that “gentle assassin” given in the United States by the failed assassin of the American president Donald Trump, or others from his staff and surroundings who entered his “friendly” crosshairs, always according to the unhinged Californian mechanical engineer now destined for quite some time to some prison workshop.
In Italy, the latest oxymoron produced by political news is the unfortunate, let’s say ill-fated, pardon granted by the President of the Republic to the former dental hygienist and more of Silvio Berlusconi, Nicole Minetti, at risk of revocation for suspected falsehoods that escaped the magistrates, both internal and external to the Ministry of Justice who had handled the case signed by the Head of State. Who, faced with facts emerging through the press about the adopted child for whose care Minetti had requested the pardon, precisely from the social services to which she had been sentenced for the bunga bunga parties of Berlusconi’s memory, publicly asked the Minister of Justice for the “urgent courtesy” of further investigations and clarifications.
At this point, however, by political logic promptly claimed in Lilli Gruber’s TV lounge and surroundings, beyond or even more than the unwanted pardon to Minetti, the head of Minister Nordio risks rolling under the guillotine of the opposition. Who, having survived with the confidence confirmed by the Prime Minister, and secretly also by a silent Mattarella, from the bitter referendum defeat of the constitutional reform of the judiciary, might have to resign because of Minetti.
It is not serious, Salvatore Merlo practically wrote in Il Foglio, blaming the ostentatious speed with which the President of the Republic acted. Who showed, at least, to believe more in the newspapers, particularly in Il Fatto Quotidiano, than in the judicial and political bodies that institutionally assist him. However, this would not be the only serious but not serious event – as Ennio Flaiano said – to break into politics and information.
As an oxymoron, it also seems to me to be Minetti’s reaction. Who protested for her “reputation” compromised by the falsehoods attributed to her by Il Fatto, and for which I presume she wants to be compensated for damages. But, while considering the realism with which Aldo Moro once invited critics that pardons are granted to people necessarily with pending legal issues, one must ask what reputation Minetti is talking about after the definitive conviction suffered and not executed.
