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\nNel 2020 avevo definito \u201cbastardi\u201d i politici che avevano messo in dubbio la necessit\u00e0 di salvare vite in mare. Meloni mi ha portato a processo e ieri c\u2019\u00e8 stata la sentenza di primo grado.
Taxi del mare, blocchi navali, sostituzione etnica, invasione: il processo \u00e8 servito per\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/nSLpKsGysR<\/a><\/p>\n\u2014 Roberto Saviano (@robertosaviano) October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Saviano (he wrote Gomorrah) has been living under police protection since 2006 for speaking up against Camorra (mafia). <\/p>\n
“In 2020 I called politicians who questioned the need to save lives at sea “bastards”. Meloni took me to trial and yesterday there was the first degree sentence.<\/b>
Sea taxis, naval blockades, ethnic substitution, invasion: the trial served to establish that these infamies, uttered in over 10 years of propaganda against migrants, must be attributed to Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic. You introduced all this rubbish into the public debate, spreading fear.
The Rome prosecutor’s office had asked for 10 thousand euros, Meloni’s lawyer 75 thousand. The judge sentenced me to a frozen fine of 1000 euros, adding that I “acted for reasons of particular social and moral value”.<\/b><\/p>\nAn acquittal would have been important for all those whom Meloni’s propaganda dehumanized and criminalized out of horrendous political calculation. But I knew that in this Italy my acquittal would never be possible. And you will see how, in the next trials into which they dragged me, there will be the same communicative political pressure: the government will continue to intimidate directly or through its supporters.<\/p>\n
There remains the satisfaction of having uttered words that frightened the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni so much that she asked a court to punish me. But I stand by what I said down to the last comma, unlike Giorgia Meloni who today is ashamed of her own words to the point of taking anyone who reminds her of them to court. <\/b>And it’s good. Because, together with the gangs with which he governs, he has made our country a worse place. For everyone. Even for those who believe that all these infamies do not concern them.<\/p>\n
This sentence is dangerous because it bears traces of intimidation and suggests that those who do my job observe religious silence to protect their projects… Rai cancels Insider as a warning to everyone. Dangerous because to suggest that those who call humanitarian missions sea taxis, those who would like to sink ships and arrest crews, those who talk about invasion and ethnic substitution can be considered stupid at best. It is dangerous because it seems harmless, even favorable to me, but it does not take into account the suffering caused to thousands of people. It is a dangerous sentence pronounced in a country dangerously exposed to hatred.<\/p>\n
The greater the lie and the power that pronounces it, the louder the cry that counters it must be. This is what I have done, this is what I do, this is what I will do.”<\/b><\/p>\n