A lively evening full of insights moderated by our newspaper's special correspondent, Stefano Zurlo who shortly before had presented his latest book Four Shots for Togliatti.
A Nordic critical of judges and religious authorities. His, class 1947, followed the Tangentopoli investigations, until the Mose scandal. And on the case of the ship Diciotti clarified that Salvini, semmai, must be judged on a political and not judicial level. Because now, according to the Catania magistrates, the "aggravated kidnapping" of the 177 migrants of Diciotti is the crime for which authorization to proceed is requested, against the prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro's request for dismissal. «This parliament said Nordio – must say by 60 days if Salvini's line is right or wrong. Whether the line is politically shared or not". Sixty days in which we arrive straight on the eve of the European elections, for a Salvini, Nordio said, which "could emerge paradoxically strengthened". «If he goes to trial he will go to the elections and probably get a lot of votes; if he doesn't go to trial, his policy on migrants is endorsed by the Senate also for the future. I would have preferred the matter to be closed.". And instead there is a risk of provoking a political cataclysm. «If the minister believes it is right to prevent the landing due to disturbances to public order, it would be an act of political discretion, he said, if it then went to trial, It would create immense problems from a legal point of view.".

The crucial point is that being a political act, constitutional law 16 January 1989, provides that the parliament and not the judiciary must decide. As for the immigration front, explains Nordio, «the law of the sea, often cited in vain, he says you have to save the castaway and take him to a safe port: Libya, Malta or Tunisia. But the ports of NGO ships are also safe: France, Germany and Holland". International agreements must be applied according to the principle of rebus sic stantibus, i.e. the situation at the time of stipulation: if the facts change, it's just a change. «No one knew so many castaways would arrive, he says – and the law of the sea does not provide for NGO ships to be rescued off the coast of Libya due to shipwrecks planned by criminal organizations. Evidently in previous governments we have made agreements so we will keep them all here, even if rescued by foreign naval vessels. All this should be explained to the religious authorities, to the Italians, to everyone. The real poor remain there, the migrants who arrive are not malnourished. Traffickers are intelligent and unscrupulous, they package the dinghies, how to pack Christmas parcels, they put in two or three children destined to die to make us fall into emotion. We don't take them because we are good, but because we are resigned. Religious authorities should also reflect on this. If one goes to check the origin of these flows, he is accused of colonialism. The issue is political, we've let it fester for years. The tragedy was born with the senseless aggression of Libya desired by Sarkozy. To use Churchill's vulgar but brilliant phrase: France made a bidet at home and then made us drink the water".