, a former criminal
Pietro Orsatti Aprima might seem the screenplay for a film with Harrison Ford. It is not. Instead, an Italian story, deeply Italian, where the "public spirit" of a citizen revolt against destroying life. This is the case of a witness to justice. Code named Ulysses. "In the nineties my wife and I witnessed a murder by accident - left to tell - even tried to intervene and avert -. Ulysses tried to invest even the killer chasing the victim - but we went there being succeeded immediately by the Police to give our testimony. Nobody came to ask. We have been us. " Ulysses scans words carefully. He wants to clarify that he is a "witness" not a "collaborator". "Witness is a citizen witnessing a criminal offense immediately of the judiciary - said -. An employee, a turncoat, and more. Today we are 71, compared with almost a thousand repented. " Ulysses and his wife witnessed the murder from the rearview mirror. The killer blows more hits against the victim in a service station on the ring road in Naples. Already during the trial, which ended with a life sentence the killer that also turned out to be the leader of a clan of the Camorra, Ulysses and his are "discovered." Justice goes on, but the administrative machinery is jammed. The protection is in fact minimal: "Three or four times a day a car passed the Police to see if we were alive. We went to testify at the trial as well. With our name, without change city or identity. " Meanwhile, threats, scritte e dirette, perfino attraverso un vigile urbano (poi condannato) come postino della camorra. Questo stato di assoluta esposizione prosegue fino al processo d’appello. È qui che scatta la protezione, provvisoria, e la famiglia è costretta a fuggire dalla propria vita. «Con l’avvicinarsi del processo d’appello le minacce sono diventate sempre più pesanti. Solo allora gli inquirenti si sono spaventati. Ma non per noi, ma per il fatto che credevano che potessimo ritrattare. Cosa che non è avvenuta. Il 28 gennaio del 1994, pochi giorni prima dell’appello, ci portarono via». La famiglia lascia precipitosamente la propria casa, abbandonando lavoro, amici, parenti, tutto. «Mi diedero a gun - he says - I did take quickly to carry firearms, and then away. " The question is inevitable: if there was all this risk because Ulysses and his had not been put under protection in previous years? The answer is not there.
"We were told that for a couple of weeks we would be staying in a hotel and then we would have been given home. It has been four months in a hotel, a room with two small children. Hotels normally used for the repentant. And of course we were confused with the repentant. The staff looked at us weird. We were in the provisional program of protection, waiting for triggering the final program. In January of the year Next I was asked to sign the document for the final protocol of the request. I was amazed. It was the same as that used for the repentant, then why not also made no distinction between us and them. The first point I had to undertake not to commit more crimes. But are we crazy? ". Be confused with a former criminal for Ulysses is a terrible blow. He is a national criminal record witness of a crime, not a criminal who cooperates with the law in exchange for protection and relief of pain. Yet he is forced to sign. But no use. The application for protection is ultimately rejected, although the risk remains very high (as confirmed by the judiciary). "I have been under pressure - He says - because immediately evacuated from the house. Also use the not so veiled threat to turn to my employer at that time to cancel a contract. They have done so in writing, as proven by documents that I handed to the judiciary. I have all the cards. " From this point of the story, the citizen who helped to citizenship only the State to imprison and prosecute a murderess becomes a victim of the state bureaucracy. In 2001 alone the status of "witness" is divorced from that of "employee", but officials of the Central Security Service, it seems, are always the same. Fixed, they are to maintain security and to determine ways to verify See eligibility. Under the direct one of the secretaries of the Ministry of Interior. For the second time this role it plays today Alfredo Mantovano, always in a Berlusconi government. From then to now things do not appear to have changed.
Ulysses is able to stay only for a short period of "temporary", then loses all coverage and help. Can not return to his hometown no longer has his job just like his wife is sick in the meantime. It does not have a new identity and therefore likely to be continually tracked. Selling off the few properties, it builds itself a new life and a cover. And, of course, is due to the State to recover what the state has taken away. Today awaits a ruling, expected in a few weeks, and is the only one of many witnesses who have suffered the same path that he is finally coming to an explanation. After eighteen years. Many of the other 71 witnesses are still in the midst of bureaucratic limbo, without cover, without security, without adequate aid. "All in one way or another - claims outraged - we were beaten by the institutions. And almost all have sought protection in the political, that most of the time you close the door in his face, and ugly. When you find someone open, listening to you, trying to help, it becomes the reference point. So we met with us. We were forced to seek help from the same people. To face of the security and anonymity. " Today
Ulysses seeks justice by those who have helped to do justice. And it's a lucky. Some people, as the entrepreneur Domenico Noviello Castelvolturno, also in Campania, the Camorra has denounced the racket, he testified, he did condemn the crime and then, after three years, we have seen suspended security. Before being killed May 16 on the road. The State escaped with a crown of flowers.
published on Left - No. 25 of 2008 events
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"We were told that for a couple of weeks we would be staying in a hotel and then we would have been given home. It has been four months in a hotel, a room with two small children. Hotels normally used for the repentant. And of course we were confused with the repentant. The staff looked at us weird. We were in the provisional program of protection, waiting for triggering the final program. In January of the year Next I was asked to sign the document for the final protocol of the request. I was amazed. It was the same as that used for the repentant, then why not also made no distinction between us and them. The first point I had to undertake not to commit more crimes. But are we crazy? ". Be confused with a former criminal for Ulysses is a terrible blow. He is a national criminal record witness of a crime, not a criminal who cooperates with the law in exchange for protection and relief of pain. Yet he is forced to sign. But no use. The application for protection is ultimately rejected, although the risk remains very high (as confirmed by the judiciary). "I have been under pressure - He says - because immediately evacuated from the house. Also use the not so veiled threat to turn to my employer at that time to cancel a contract. They have done so in writing, as proven by documents that I handed to the judiciary. I have all the cards. " From this point of the story, the citizen who helped to citizenship only the State to imprison and prosecute a murderess becomes a victim of the state bureaucracy. In 2001 alone the status of "witness" is divorced from that of "employee", but officials of the Central Security Service, it seems, are always the same. Fixed, they are to maintain security and to determine ways to verify See eligibility. Under the direct one of the secretaries of the Ministry of Interior. For the second time this role it plays today Alfredo Mantovano, always in a Berlusconi government. From then to now things do not appear to have changed.
Ulysses is able to stay only for a short period of "temporary", then loses all coverage and help. Can not return to his hometown no longer has his job just like his wife is sick in the meantime. It does not have a new identity and therefore likely to be continually tracked. Selling off the few properties, it builds itself a new life and a cover. And, of course, is due to the State to recover what the state has taken away. Today awaits a ruling, expected in a few weeks, and is the only one of many witnesses who have suffered the same path that he is finally coming to an explanation. After eighteen years. Many of the other 71 witnesses are still in the midst of bureaucratic limbo, without cover, without security, without adequate aid. "All in one way or another - claims outraged - we were beaten by the institutions. And almost all have sought protection in the political, that most of the time you close the door in his face, and ugly. When you find someone open, listening to you, trying to help, it becomes the reference point. So we met with us. We were forced to seek help from the same people. To face of the security and anonymity. " Today
Ulysses seeks justice by those who have helped to do justice. And it's a lucky. Some people, as the entrepreneur Domenico Noviello Castelvolturno, also in Campania, the Camorra has denounced the racket, he testified, he did condemn the crime and then, after three years, we have seen suspended security. Before being killed May 16 on the road. The State escaped with a crown of flowers.
published on Left - No. 25 of 2008 events
The content on this site are published under a Creative Commons License
.
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