“Blocking Naples Central Station was an extreme gesture by those who can no longer survive the continued silence of the Italian and foreign judiciary.” This was underlined in a note by Claudio Falleti, the lawyer for the Russo and Cimmino families who have had no news of Raffaele and Antonio Russo and Vincenzo Cimmino, the three Neapolitans kidnapped in Mexico, since January 31. “The State is concerned with stopping those who enter the country,” he added, “but it does not respect the Italian to whom something has happened abroad.” For Falleti, public opinion on the case of the three Neapolitans “is divided between those who ask for the truth and those who shrug their shoulders and say ‘if something happened, they were certainly asking for it.’” “This,” continued the lawyer for the two families, “may be the opinion of the people but it cannot be that of our institutions, which have the duty to intervene regardless, because an Italian does not abandon himself to his fate.” Falleti invites everyone to put themselves in the shoes of the relatives of the three missing people and finally asks for "a response from the State, which has the duty to intervene otherwise it would be the death of the Rule of Law".
Article published on 30 October 2018 - 16:39
