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This article was published June 23, 2015 at 18:10.
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“To hear different opinions it is always right but I do not understand the choice to sit at the table of Sofri prison reform. I hope that Orlando explain it. ” He wrote on Twitter Mario Calabresi, editor of La Stampa and the son of Louis, the commissioner killed in 1972 and for whose murder Adriano Sofri was sentenced to 22 years. Similar reaction comes from the widow of the Commissioner, Gemma Calabresi: “Sounds incomprehensible choice,” said the widow Calabresi, who has added another. However, he stressed that it was not informed of the decision: “I knew nothing.” The justice minister said Andrea Orlando from New York controversy on the advice of Sofri. “There was not any kind of advice let alone paid assignment” for Adriano Sofri, he said.

The comment Sofri
The same Adriano Sofri was expressed in an editorial in the sheet about the controversy on its participation to the states general for prison reform. “He raised a small fuss around my” appointment “by the Minister of Justice as an” expert “in prison. My contribution was limited to a telephone conversation with a respected jurist, and for membership in a possible future meeting. Which however will not go, scusandomene with promoters, because I’ve had enough of the nonsense in general and in particular the promotional crap. ”

The voices of Sofri consultant for prison reform
According to preliminary versions of the news, Sofri was appointed advisor to the Ministry of Justice for prison reform. The news was however refuted by Professor Glauco Joust, coordinator of the scientific committee of the States General for enforcement purposes. In a statement signed by Joust it states that ‘No consulting assignment was given to Adriano Sofri. ” According to the note the controversy would have been generated by the news of participation of Adriano Sofri table discussion on “Culture, education and sports in the prison,” organized as part of the General Assembly on the execution of the sentence.

The denial of the Ministry
“In no way can participation in the procedure considered a consulting engagement, since the promotion of a public debate around the issues of prison.” So in a statement issued by the Ministry of Justice, Glauco Joust, Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the States General for enforcement, on the Sofri case.

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