Jubilation on the left after the acquittals, but the questions about children left without evidence remain. Boschi and Furfaro: “Meloni apologizes”
Now let’s talk about Bibbiano, even if with a little bitterness in the mouth. Apparently, something to speak of was really there, about the way in which the custody of minors were managed in the Val d’Enza, in the province of Reggio Emilia. Of course, the first instance sentence of the trial angels and demons read yesterday in the Court of Reggio Emilia is not the most severe, far from it. The Court of Assizes chaired by Sara Iusto It was called to decide the fate of the 14 defendants still awaiting trial, for which sentences had been requested for a total of 73 years in prison. The crimes at stake, moreover, were very heavy: procedural fraud, sidetracking, abuse of office, mistreatment on minors, very serious injuries, false public act, private violence, attempted extortion, embezzlement of use.
It must be said immediately: it did not go at all as hoped for by the prosecutor Valentina Salvi who conducted the investigation. Only two excellent convictions: Federica Anghinolfithe central figure of the investigation at the top of the social services of the Val d’Enza took two years, even if the prosecutor had asked for a total of 15; For his right arm Francesco Monopoli A sentence of one year and eight months of imprisonment has arrived (even if 12 had been requested): penalty suspended for both. Flaviana Murrusocial worker, was instead sentenced to 8 months.
To follow, a nice number of acquittals, starting with that of Nadia Bolognini, Psychologist of the Hansel and Gretel Center and wife of Claudio Foti. For her, a sentence had been requested to eight years and three months. But like his life partner he got away. Absolutions also for the other defendants, in some cases because the Court has judged the facts that do not exist, in others by prescription. There were also on trial Fadia Bassmaji, Daniela Bedogni, Imelda Bonaretti, Valentina Uchino, Katia Guiderti, Maria Vittoria Masdea, Sara Gibertini, Marietta Veltri and Annalisa Scalabrini. In practice, a robust slice of the social services of the Bibbianese and surroundings. Since most came out of the first degree without convictions, we already know what the refrain will be in the next few days, also because someone began to inton it last night. The lawyers of Federica Anghinolfi, Oliviero Mazza And Rossella everybene: «Today we know that there are no demons opposed to the angels, that our assisted is not a thief of children and that he has never acted for interests other than the higher one of the protection of minors. This judicial truth repays us for the efforts made, but does not cancel the media destruction of the image of our assisted nor the irreparable and incalculable damage caused to the system of protection of minors “.
The cunning troops of the left immediately came to wheel. Maria Elena Boschi He demands the apologies of the Melons, Marco Furfaro idem. And then all the flock Pd: “With the first instance sentence on the trial angels and demons, a story that has profoundly marked our territory since July 2019” said the DEM deputy toNdrea Rossi. «After years of waiting, we can finally say that justice has taken its course, distinguishing the facts from distorted narratives. We express satisfaction for the outcome of the trial, which led to the acquittal of almost all the defendants, with the exception of two sentences with suspended sentence. The judicial truth confirms what many, knowing the reality of our social services and the institutional fabric, have always supported: the public story has often been altered, exploited and used for political purposes, without regard for the truth and without lasting success. Not only the people involved unjustly involved – whose dignity is partially returned – but above all the most fragile: minors are not only injured by this story. Victims twice, before the events under investigation and then of the media and political exposure that transformed pain into controversy ». Of words like these we will hear several, there is to swear. Just as there is to bet that practically all the media, in unison, will be repeating that “the castle has collapsed” and that the Bibbiano case has never existed. Those who followed the story from the beginning, without inflating the facts and without monstrifying but by reporting everything that happened, can hardly accept this totally absolute version. Meanwhile, it is worth recalling that the nine children from whom everything had arisen, unlike what the Democratic Party says, were not victims of the media exposure. Indeed, thanks to the investigation and the discouragement he produced, they all returned home by the will of the minor court already in 2021. Which indicates that some wrong choice the Reggio social services made it.
Then of course, there are the acquittals that cannot be denied. But there are also convictions, although light. And these fall on two of the main protagonists of this bad story. All the others, including the very mentioned Fotthey were supporting actors. We will read the motivations, but one thing we can already say it now: the way it is the way the most of the newspapers is telling this first outcome of the investigation. When the investigation exploded, the most had an initial disorientation, even Republic He told the previous atrocious of children removed from his parents for abuse never existed. But then, when it was discovered that in some way the Emilian Democratic Party was also pulled in the middle, the tones quickly changed and innocentists like mushrooms, ready to defect and fly over the worst aspects of the story. Whether they existed, like it or not: the little ones were unjustly removed from families and some of them were harassed precisely in the entrusted families. Didn’t there be a system to steal children? It can also be. But there was and resists a treacherous ideology that tends to see the family as a receptacle of evil and aims to disregard it. In Bibbiano and not only this ideology operated, and often still works elsewhere. Regardless of any judicial truth.
