Mattarella: we avoid that Italy enters in age ‘anxiety – The Republic

Rome, July 28 – The Head of State and the alarm to ‘the demon of violence that has’ again spread to Europe’. The ‘community’ Islamic calls to help us’. The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, appeals, in the columns of ‘La Repubblica’, so that ‘you do not enter’ into a new age ‘anxiety’. This time we are living, not many days ago Father Jacques Hamel, murdered in his church of St. Etienne-du-Rouvray, had called ‘a time to be considerate of others, whoever they are.’ Words that emphasize, better than anything else, the enormity ‘of crime. In recent weeks we crossed sad event for our country. The massacre of Dhaka the disaster train in Puglia, the massacre of Nice: so many of our fellow citizens have lost their lives or are still grappling with the consequences of those events. Added to all this still waiting for justice for the barbaric murder of Julius Regeni. And the thought also runs other places (…). To focus our attention on Europe, we are forced to retrace a route from Utoya crimes Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan to suicide German pilot with a hundred and fifty victims, from Brussels to the murder of the British Jo Cox MEP, the massacre Nice to that of Monaco and again, in Ansbach, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. There and ‘only the assault, fierce, terrorism. This season seems to give space to all kinds of violence, also appears to favor the spread of germs endogenous remained long hidden, under control, in our society ‘and that, suddenly, they explode. We ‘can we forget that the killers of the Paris and Brussels (and, again yesterday, in St. Etienne-du-Rouvray) were born and raised in European countries. Diversity ‘of the causes of the massacres and crimes raises the alarm. It really seems that the demon of violence has once again spread to Europe (…) Of course the most ‘up and’ – how and ‘fair warning – for the violence caused by terrorist propaganda of Islamist inspiration. It is, besides’ the most ‘obvious phenomenon, frequently, heinous, the most’ serious and emergency threatens more ‘important for the entire international community’. But there and ‘I repeat, only this violence, serious and alarming. We need to understand where they come from, and why ‘, many manifestations of violence that burst into everyday life. Violence and ’round to spread in Europe through different roads. Faced with such a ‘diversified and complex phenomenon must find the ability’ to analyze it in its entirety (…) and rejected the criminal purpose to use religion to unleash a global conflict. Again we need the active cooperation of the communities’ religious of Europe, particularly the Islamic ones. It is likely to enter a new age ‘anxiety’. you can not ‘ignore or condemn the fear:

and’ a feeling that must be respected. The need for security is part of the civic dimension. Appropriate to reply with great seriousness’. In my inaugural address I allowed to say that the state must be able to ensure the right of citizens to a peaceful life and freedom from fear. What we have to stop and ‘that the fear we win. We can not allow our country, that the whole of Europe, you enter in the age ‘anxiety. This should be, and must be, instead, the responsibility of the time ‘. And the responsibility ‘requires common commitments beyond divisions. At the continental level and on the inside. Our country has this vocation and attitude at European level; and, internally, has wide solidarity ‘resources, resources which must be valued and attended to (…) I think – to give just one example – the rows of people who have seen in Puglia hospitals to donate blood for the wounded of the accident the train. Those many admirable, people have felt responsible than the fate of the wounded. To go out for a moment from the confines of Europe, I believe that all we remember the extraordinary example of the young Bengali student, Faraaz Hossein, a Muslim, who, in Dhaka, has rejected the possibility ‘, offered to him, leaving the prey restaurant terrorists and preferred to stay with her colleagues, dying to defend them (…) Sometimes – adds Mattarella in his speech – the media are tempted to want to explain the events in real time, rather than narrate them, looking in the bewilderment of the people, in the fragments image, in testimonies, made sometimes in shock, conclusions often intended to be misleading in the light of the facts. Can not ‘apply in this case the saying’ the show must go on ‘,’ cause this is not the show but rather ‘the life and future of people. In another area, the sacred and irrinunziabile right to inform and the duty to inform – also sacred and irrinunziabile – are not and can not be, of course, put into question. Perhaps it would be appropriate, however, find the point of balance with the need to prevent the repetitiveness’ beyond the images of violence measure could result in emulative behavior. Those same behavior that the web, even amid so many benefits, sometimes seems to suggest, offering a vast audience to hate preachers. .

( 28 July 2016 )

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