Stefano Cucchi. This step will tell us that perhaps it is not even really dead… – articolo21

let’s Go ahead as well. Between a while someone will tell us that Stefano Cucchi was a victim of a cold; or, maybe, who knows, it’s not even really dead. They speak about television, websites, newspapers online, newspapers. The death of Cucchi, say the experts appointed by the Judge for the Preliminary Investigations, is rubricare as "a sudden and unexpected for epilepsy in a man with disease, epileptic long-term treatment with anti-epileptic drugs"; this is "the hypothesis with greater strength and trust". Hypothesis… And the barrel is received, and documented, as evidenced by the ones which are still touching photographs? Those not according to the experts, there would be a connection between the violent beating suffered by Cucchi in the night between 15 and 16 October 2009. The experts of neurology say that to die of epilepsy (unless it’s self-suffocation, is extremely rare. But that matters little. "The hypothesis" is the one that has greater strength and reliability of the…

Then, however, there would be a connection; the attacker, yes, and even violent; but the link no, that is not there. The violent beating is a side effect; Cucchi was inside of the barracks of the carabinieri; it is violently beaten, that is to say slaughtered of barrel, but this fact is secondary. There is no link. A guy comes alive in the structures of the State, left as a dead man; there is no link. Cucchi is stopped because in the possession of a few grams of drugs, asks in vain to be able to speak with his attorney. There is a link.

When it comes to the court for the hearing of the validation the doctor found injuries that judges are not alarming, the same injury by the prison doctor are the currencies to be serious, to the point that he is admitted to the ward for the inmates of the hospital Sandro Pertini. There is no link. Cucchi at the end dies. There is no link. The whole of this incredible story happens in mid-October 2009, for eight years. There is a link.

You can do all your slalom court that you want to, the question, reduced to the bone, certainly is this: a city comes alive in an institution of the State; it comes out dead. Of course, there is a matter of "elementary": if the State, through its articulation, deprives a citizen of his freedom, it automatically becomes the guarantor and responsible for her safety, her physical and mental integrity. Without "if" and without "but". It is from here that you need to start, these are the terms of the question, this is the scandal. That of Cucchi is the story of a boy who died while in the hands of the State. A guy who comes to weigh 37 pounds, with the face swollen, the right eye returned into the orbit, swollen, obvious signs of the beating suffered. This is the link.

will Not fail those who, now that will urge you to not succumb to hasty, superficial judgments; we want to remember that you need to know the motivations and reasons that have led to the situation today. There is, however, a simple, elementary link: Cucchi comes alive, suffers a violent beating, out dead. No generalization: cops, police, agents of the penitentiary police, they do a hard work, tiring, difficult, and risky. Do not ever end, tell them thanks for what they do. But because of this, cases such as that of Cucchi are intolerable and "burn". From a criminal that we can expect everything. By people wearing the uniform, no. Come live in a "place" of the State, get out of the dead, it is a prison, a barracks, a police station is not acceptable, is not justifiable; not to be accepted or justified.

Italy is the country of Cesare Beccaria. It is the country that gives to humanity a booklet that is wherever the bed is known, "crimes and punishments"…The little booklet inspired by Thomas Jefferson, the "fathers," the founders of the United States of America: to read directly in Italian, from there take their cue and inspiration for new laws that need to launch for the young american nation; that a libretto in France excited the philosophers of the"Encyclopédie"… In 1766 the catholic church puts it to the Index; right: has the effrontery to distinguish crime from sin…

after more than 250 years, from that text of revolutionary that overturns radically the legislation, the judicial, and said the principle for which the determination of penalties and crimes should be exclusively based on a code well done and defined set of rules; the announcement, therefore will or influence of the judge, and this for the "simple" reason that, being a man, even the judge, can be carried away or influenced by their own instincts or interests. In this country, with this glorious tradition, yet it has not been a simple thing and most important: in our code there is no crime of torture; is not covered, even though they have subscribed to and signed by the years, the relevant international conventions. Finally, would begin to find peace in Stefano Cucchi and the Aldo Bianzino, Federico Aldrovandi and Joseph Uva, the Michael Ferulli and Francesco Mastrogiovanni, the victims of the "butcher mexican" that is consumed on the occasion of the G8 summit in Genoa, and the dozens of people who came live in an institution of the State (prison, police station, police station, etc), and there have been death; and also their families ricaverebbero a bit of consolation, because the victims of the "crimes" and "punishments" may finally get justice.

it is Not difficult to make that gesture: you can simply retrieve the text of the Law submitted by radicals, and the Pd and others in the past legislature, or to those presented for example by Luigi Manconi in this; in a short time, if there was political will, these texts may approve. But here is the question: why those who can not, and will not do? In the end, this is the question to ask, and to ask ourselves, are we to be the country of Beccaria’s "Dei delitti e delle pene". And here, the link.

"…they arrested Me one day for women and wine, they had no laws to punish a blasphemous, I killed the death, but two guards bigotte, I sought out the soul, to the strength of the barrel…". (Fabrizio De André, "A blasphemer")