Italy on Tuesday marked the 50th
anniversary of the murder of Milan police commissioner Luigi
Calabresi.
Calabresi was killed in retaliation for the death of an
anarchist bombing suspect, Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from a
police station window in what
late Nobel prizewinning playwright Dario Fo called, in his famed
play, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
Calabresi was cleared of all responsibility in Pinelli's death.
"Fifty years have passed since the criminal terrorist attack
that took the life of commissioner Luigi Calabresi, a servant of
the democratic State," Mattarella said.
"The Republic does not forget its fallen...
"Figures like Commissioner Calabresi embody the values that
enable the whole community to progress, find the unity necessary
in the most difficult moments and feel responsible for the new
generations".
A hearing will be held in Paris on Wednesday to decide on
whether to extradite to Italy former leftist terrorist Giorgio
Pietrostefani, who has been convicted for ordering Calabresi's
murder.
Pietrostefani was a leading member of the hard-left group Lotta
Continua, whose leader Adriano Sofri served 22 years for the
murder of Calabresi.
Calabresi's son Mario said that he has doubts about the value of
extraditing Pietrostefani, who is now 78.
"I haven't followed my mother's path of forgiveness, but I have
come to make peace with what happened and learned not to
cultivate anger," Mario Calabresi said.
"It would not give us anything back for a 78-year-old sick man
to go to prison.
"It's a symbolic deed but, for us, it almost has no sense any
more".
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