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Italian to English: Veltroni on the G8: "The nation needs the truth"
Source text - Italian G8, Veltroni: "il paese ha bisogno di verità"
mercoledì, 31 ottobre 2007 3.48
MILANO (Reuters) - Il nuovo leader del Partito democratico Walter Veltroni ha condannato oggi il mancato ok all'istituzione di una commissione di inchiesta sul G8 di Genova del 2001, teatro di violenze che portarono alla morte di uno dei manifestanti, Carlo Giuliani.
In una lettera inviata al sindaco di Genova Marta Vincenzi -- che ieri ha definito la battuta d'arresto per la commissione una delusione e un'offesa -- Veltroni spiega che è necessario accertare la verità su quanto accaduto e offre la propria solidarietà a tutti i genovesi.
"Nessuno di loro, nessuno di noi, può dimenticare quei giorni", scrive il sindaco di Roma nella lettera. "Furono un incubo: scontri tra manifestanti e polizia, ragazzi picchiati, la città devastata da bande di black block (...) Sono passati sei anni, ma sono davvero ferite non ancora rimarginate (...) per le quali non c'è che una cura: l'accertamento della verità, di tutta la verità su quanto accadde in quei giorni".
"E' questa l'unica strada, questo l'unico modo", aggiunge Veltroni, ricordando come l'allora presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi chiese "piena luce" su quegli avvenimenti.
Ieri, la commissione affari costituzionali della Camera ha bocciato la proposta di istituire la commissione di inchiesta con i voti, oltre che della Cdl all'opposizione, dell'Udeur e dell'Italia dei valori, partiti al governo, che hanno chiesto che si indaghi non solo sulla gestione dell'ordine pubblico da parte delle forze dell'ordine ma anche su quello dei manifestanti.
Nella sua lettera, Veltroni spiega che la magistratura sta facendo il suo corso, ma che la "la commissione d'inchiesta avrebbe dovuto, dovrebbe, ricostruire i fatti, tutti, e chiarire le responsabilità, quelle che ci furono e quelle che vennero meno. Non dobbiamo avere paura dei fatti".
"C'è ancora tempo per rimediare, per istituire quella Commissione d'inchiesta della quale hai detto, cara Marta, Genova non può fare a meno", conclude Veltroni. "E' importante per la nostra democrazia, che dalla verità dei fatti e dalla trasparenza delle istituzioni ha solo da guadagnare".
Translation - English Veltroni on the G8: "The nation needs the truth"
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007, 3:48 AM
MILAN (Reuters) – Walter Veltroni, newly installed leader of the Democratic Party, condemned today his institution’s failure to approve the creation of a commission that would have investigated the events that took place at the Group of Eight conference in Genoa in 2001, where violence led to the death of Carlo Giuliani, an anti-G8 demonstrator.
In an open letter to the mayor of Genoa, Marta Vincenzi – in which Veltroni yesterday called the failure to institute the commission a disappointment and an insult - he explains that the truth about what happened must be ascertained, and offers his solidarity to the citizens of Genoa.
"Not one of them, not one of us, can forget those days,” the mayor of Rome writes in his letter. "They were a waking nightmare: clashes in the streets between police and demonstrators, young people beaten, the city overrun by black block gangs (...) Six years have passed, but these wounds have still not healed (...) there’s but one cure for them: the truth must come out, the full truth about what happened during the days of the summit.
"This is the only path, the only way,” adds Veltroni, remembering how then-President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi asked that “full light” be shed upon the events.
The Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Parliament, failed yesterday to pass a motion that would have created the investigatory committee. Voting against the measure – besides the opposition CDL (House of Liberties) – were the Union of Christian Democrats, and Italy of Values, parties in the government, which had requested that the commission be charged with investigating not only of the actions of the public security forces, but also of the demonstrators.
In his letter, Veltroni asserts that while that the justice system is doing its part, “the investigatory committee would have – still should – reconstruct the facts, all the facts, and clarify who was responsible, who fulfilled their responsibilities and who came up short. We shouldn’t be afraid of the truth.”
"There’s still time to set things right, to set up the investigative committee I propose, my dear Marta; Genova can do no less,” concludes Veltroni. "It’s important for our democracy, which has only to gain from truth and transparency in her institutions.”
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