Salon you go, martyr you find. And the Turin Book Fair he has seen many pass by in these hours, starting from Anthony Darken up And Roberto Saviano. The former complains about the personal attacks he received after the alleged (and already denied) censorship of his monologue of April 25th. The second complains but in the end it seems that his program will be broadcast by Rai, despite having called Prime Minister Meloni a “bastard”. Both, and this is the real news, faced with the request to give their solidarity to the minister Eugenia Roccella silenced by the protesters at the General States of Birth, they refused to do so. One way or another.
The envoy of Fourth Republic he went to Turin to ask two simple questions to the “censored” par excellence. Who, however, turned a deaf ear. In solidarity with Minister Roccella? Saviano is direct: “No, quite the opposite: because contesting is democracy. A minister cannot be censored but contested.” And to think that too Sergio Mattarella he criticized the interruption to the General States of Birth because “wanting to silence those who think differently contrasts with the foundations of civilization and with our Constitution”. But Saviano doesn’t even hear us from that ear: “It’s not unconstitutional” to contest, on the contrary “it’s part of democracy, I have this vision and I will always defend it”.
Let’s ignore the fact that Saviano instead granted his solidarity to the students who were trying to break through the police cordon in the square. Let’s overlook the fact that in Turin, just as protests were being debated inside and freedom of expression, only the presence of officers in riot gear prevented a pro-Palestine march from invading the stands with their slogans (the police “baton” and are horrible, except when they defend them?). And let’s also ignore the words of Massimo D’Alema according to which “these forms of protests have always existed but they do not call into question freedom of expression”.
We get to Anthony Darken upwhich the microphones of Fourth Republic he had already “disgusted” them once by refusing some questions. This time he is less forceful but the result does not change: “I have decided not to comment to any press”.
And to think that it would have been enough to say: solidarity with the minister who was unable to express his ideas.
