Marina Berlusconi, the letter: “My father persecuted even when dead”

«Dear director, wasn’t the Thirty Years War supposed to end with Silvio Berlusconi? After him, wasn’t the theme of justice supposed to return to normality? No, unfortunately that is not the case. He waited just a month after his disappearance, the Prosecutor of Florence, to resume the hunt for Berlusconi undaunted, with the most delusional accusation, that of mafia. While in the country the conflict between the judiciary and politics is more alive and violent than ever”.
Thus in a letter in Il Giornale, Marina Berlusconi adds: «But can anyone really believe that Silvio Berlusconi ordered the Cosa Nostra to unleash death and destruction to facilitate its descent into the field in January 1994? The new goal is clear: damnatio memoriae. No, unfortunately the Thirty Years War didn’t end with Silvio Berlusconi. And it’s certainly not just about him. Because a country where justice doesn’t work is a country that can’t work. «I have no illusions – affirms the daughter of the former prime minister – that, after so many failures, a reform is enough to restore us to full legal civilization. But I think, and I hope, that those who really have a sense of the state must take some important steps. We must not, we cannot resign ourselves. We have the right to a justice that, as we read in the courtrooms, is “the same for all”. For everyone, without certain prosecutors deciding who yes and who doesn’t ».
“It’s a disheartening feeling”, “a sentence to never end the sentence even without proof, even without a sentence, even after life itself”. «Let me be very clear – Marina Berlusconi points out – it is only up to politics and institutions, in compliance with the constitutional provisions, to deal with serious problems such as this. However, I feel the need to bear witness, and a denunciation, first of all as a daughter: the persecution of which my father was a victim, and which does not have the shame to stop even in front of his disappearance, I believe contains in itself many of the pathologies and aberrations by which our justice is afflicted. It is a story that sees even a small part of the judiciary transform into an untouchable caste and a political subject, aimed only at tarnishing real or presumed opponents. This is how certain prosecutors totally reverse the path that the search for truth should follow». «They start from a theorem, however bizarre, and adapt the reality of the facts to this, even distorting it, to demonstrate the validity of the theorem itself. That in the end this doesn’t find the slightest response matters little. Because in the meantime the friendly news organizations – he underlines – will have diligently published the prosecution papers, even those in theory secret, doing everything possible to present the hypotheses as if they were absolute truths. The notice of guarantee thus only serves to ensure that the suspect is immediately pilloried: the canonical interceptions will follow, even the most distant from the subject of the investigation. But everything serves to build the media condemnation, the one that is really close to their heart, even before the theorem of the accusation is examined by a third judge. A diabolical mechanism, this prosecutor’s pincer accomplices, which ruins the lives of those directly concerned but also conditions, and in my father’s case we have seen how much, the democratic life of the country poisons the climate, tramples on the most sacred constitutional principles. And yet – concludes Marina Berlusconi – and I say this with all the bitterness of which I am capable, it is a diabolically effective mechanism”.