Indro Montanelli explains in his memoirs that when Anita Ekberg arrived in Rome to shoot La dolce vita, as a first act of providence she telephoned the director, Federico Fellini, to invite him to her hotel, where she received him in bed naked and ready for the sacrifice Adds Montanelli with his precise prose that “Fellini was not one to carry a cocked weapon, so he panicked”. Then he couldn’t think of anything better than to simulate an attack of appendicitis, with such realism that he was actually operated on.
This Fellini anecdote crossed my mind after learning that the Board of Prosecutors sees indications to investigate Carles Puigdemont for terrorism, not only because the prosecutor Álvaro Redondo – who made the preliminary report contrary to this thesis – resembles Marcello Mastroianni, but because sometimes one rambles on about things that never happened but can still have real consequences. Like the surgical intervention on Fellini for appendicitis that was invented in order to get out of a commitment or like the consideration of ex-president Puigdemont as a suspected terrorist that 12 of the 15 prosecutors have taken from the sleeve of his toga, because of the Democratic Tsunami. Victor Hugo already said that being good is relatively easy and that the most difficult thing is to be fair.
The processing of the Amnesty law is being a disaster, I can’t see it having a good ending. Not for the Executive, not for Parliament, not for justice. In other words, for none of the three powers of the State. And much less for those who are waiting for the law to be approved once and did not understand JxCat’s paper voting against, alongside the PP and Vox.
The process caused a major institutional crisis, which could be reproduced in the face of the cluster of errors and transgressions in which we are immersed. It was about closing wounds, but every day there is a new laceration. It produces a blush that the spokeswoman of JxCat insults the judges in Congress, that the prosecutors endorse that Puigdemont could be a terrorist or that the amnesty is a tailor-made suit that amnesties make. The measure of grace should be an element for the reunion, but it has become a boomerang, from the impact of which its promoters should be protected in the return.
