disturbed, they commit crimes: in Bologna a Croatian stabs a 34-year-old to death, in Milan an Egyptian miraculously doesn’t kill a policeman and the young man hit by a North African while defending his friend is serious
There was a time when everything was simpler: the guards caught the thieves and the thieves caught by the guards ended up in prison. It was so simple that it lent itself to a game, that of “cops and robbers”. Then something happened that slowly complicated the rules and we found that no one wants to joke about it anymore and, in the division, it’s the guard who risks getting into trouble (provided he hasn’t lost his desire to do his job as a guard well). The latest happened in the western outskirts of Milan, on the evening of January 5, in a building where the residents decided to call the police to stop a “particularly annoying” man.
And in fact when the officers arrive and enter the apartment they find a twenty-four-year-old Egyptian with a knife in his hand who screams whatever and shows no signs of calming down or giving up. Indeed, despite the conditions of numerical inferiority, he points at one of the policemen, knocks him down, blocks him and repeatedly sticks the knife into his chest. Fortunately, the supplied vest “slows down” the action of the blade. In an attempt to stop the rowdy criminal, the crew chief of the Volante first tries to block his arm while he slashes with the knife, then takes out his service weapon and shoots the Egyptian, wounding him in the leg. Fady Helmy Abdelmalak Hannathis is the name of the North African, he was known to the police as he was homeless in Italy with precedents for resistance, damage and illegal occupation. It was regular, but at this point one asks: do we really need these people? And above all, why was he free? And because he was free too Jelenic Marinthe Croatian who stabbed the young train conductor in Bologna? He too was known to the police; he too was a special observer in the stations of Northern Italy to such an extent that when the cameras immortalized him, it was not difficult to focus on the delinquent profile. So, why can these vagabonds – armed with knives to survive in the Wild West of the desperate – put respectable people at risk?
The question is always the same. He had already talked about it too Belpietro the other day about the murder of Aurora Livolithe girl killed by an illegal Peruvian, homeless and with a dangerous history: Emilio Gabriel Valdez Velazco57 years old. This gentleman was also well known to our police headquarters and to the police headquarters because he had done some really big things, always for sexual crimes. Not only that, he had already been hit with an expulsion order but we know that the ways of the Italian bureaucracy are truly endless. And various, so much so that even at the CPR where they had placed him his stay did not last long: an alleged urinary tract pathology, ascertained by a doctor, had allowed him to leave. And crime, even killing Aurora. There would also be, at least according to the victims, the North African who stabbed a fifteen-year-old outside the cinema in Milan, “guilty” of having tried to prevent the theft of his friend’s jacket. But yes, there isn’t a correlation between illegal immigrants and delinquency anyway: these are things that we invent in these parts to sell newspapers or those bad guys from the center-right scream at them for a handful more votes. Unfortunately for the protagonists of the centre-left and for their gazetteers, the connection is certainly there and not from today: already in 2008 the professor Marzio Barbagli he wrote a well-documented book on immigration and security; and important similar reports come from another sociologist, Luca Ricolfi. Not to mention the statistics that come from the Interior Ministry. In short, the data is there to be able to seriously address the issue.
What happens instead? It happens that, as we said at the beginning, when the guards catch thieves and criminals, they do not end up in prison or are not isolated so that they do not commit further crime. Therefore the problem is not in the field of the agents (whose number and whose skills we would always like to grow) but is in the field of those who release them by taking advantage of legislative or bureaucratic loopholes. So when people say they can’t take it anymore or complain that these criminals “don’t care because they’re not afraid” they are stating concepts that are more than understandable. When I happen to be in the broadcasts of Paolo Del Debbio or of Mario Giordano and hearing certain Maranza people speak, I’m astounded: it’s as if they really weren’t afraid of anything. And in fact then you find the Egyptian who attacks the policeman, the Peruvian who kills the girl, the Croatian who stabs the station master. The police catch them and then…
