Among the comments, that of the president of the Reggio Emilia Bar Association, Enrico Della Capanna, stands out. “Dear Giovanni, you are right! We got rid of fascism in 1945, but in 2024 we still haven’t gotten rid of anti-fascism. We should try to free ourselves from it, to build a new society projected towards the future, in which we can share values, ideas, objectives, without sterile ideological barriers that belong to dynamics that our young people don’t even know. The world moves forward and we cannot remain glued to the past. April 25th should not be a leap into the past, but a moment to reflect on how to free ourselves from all ideological dictatorships, of whatever kind they may be. I understand that the past is useful to those who have little to offer, but it is of no use to you! Good luck dear friend.”
An appeal to free ourselves from anti-fascism, just on the eve of April 25th, which – especially in Reggio Emilia, medal of gold for the military valor of the Resistance – certainly does not go unnoticed also for the role played by Della Capanna, who wrote through his personal profile, but still remains the president of all the Reggio togas. Just as the positions taken – in those cases official – by the president of the Bar Association in support of the lawyer Pagliani (Tarquini’s colleague), unjustly arrested in the context of the Aemilia maxi-investigation, and above all the harsh note against the Reggio prosecutor’s office after the revelations of the anti-mafia magistrate Roberto Pennisi “in reference to investigations not carried out and deliberately omitted on the relationships between local politics and exponents of organized crime rooted in the Reggio Emilia area”, Della Capanna had written. On that occasion – on behalf of the entire council of the Order – Della Capanna had denounced the “violation of the principles of impartiality, autonomy and independence of the judiciary, which must be the foundation of civil society”, asking for “clarity so that any doubt can be appropriately dispelled.”
