Indro Montanelli tells in his memoirs that when Anita Ekberg arrived in Rome to film La dolce vita, as a first precaution she telephoned the director, Federico Fellini, to invite him to her hotel, where she received him naked in bed and prepared for the sacrifice. Montanelli adds in his precise prose that “Fellini was not one of those who carried a cocked gun, so he panicked.” Then he couldn’t think of anything better than to simulate an attack of appendicitis, with such realism that they operated on him for real.
This Fellini anecdote came to 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 fables about things that never happened but can still have real consequences. Like the surgical intervention on Fellini for an appendicitis that was invented to get out of a commitment or like the consideration of former President Puigdemont as an alleged terrorist that 12 of the 15 prosecutors have taken out of the cuff of his robe, for the cause of Tsunami Democràtic. Victor Hugo already said that being good is easy and that the difficult thing is being fair.
The processing of the Amnesty law is being a disaster, I can’t see it having a good ending. Not for the Government, not for Parliament, not for justice. That is, for none of the three powers of the State. And much less for those who are waiting for it to be approved once and for all and did not understand the nonsense of JxCat voting with PP and Vox.
The process entailed a great institutional crisis, which could be reproduced given the accumulation of errors and transgressions in which we are immersed. It was about healing wounds, but every day there is a new laceration. It causes embarrassment that the JxCat spokesperson insults the judges in Congress, that the prosecutors endorse that Puigdemont could be a terrorist or that the amnesty is a suit as the amnestied are made. The measure of grace should have been an element for the reunion, but it has become a boomerang, from whose impact its promoters should protect themselves upon return.
