Rome, 18 July (LaPresse) – “They’re competing to see who can capitalise most on the jeweller’s case, which has absolutely nothing to do with self-defence.” This is what M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote on social media. “Having failed on security, with crime rampant everywhere, they’ve found a cunning way to shift the blame onto the public: ‘Dear citizens, get yourselves a gun and take the law into your own hands,’ he adds. They don’t tell us, however, that if everyone were to apply the rule of ‘do-it-yourself justice’, that very jeweller would have been dead long ago. In 2005, Mr Roggero broke into the home of his daughter’s boyfriend, violently assaulting him and eventually drawing a gun with which he threatened him and his parents. Applying the same logic the government is using to spin the Roggero case, could the victims then have caught up with him as he left the house and shot him in the back? It is the State that must guarantee our safety, if we do not want Italy to become the Wild West. We must not resign ourselves to this quagmire, to a government that thinks only of shielding itself rather than providing answers and solutions to real problems. We will emerge from this quagmire together. These will be months of struggle, commitment and participation.”
Roggero case: Conte: “Enough of this sensationalism – this isn’t self-defence; no to the Wild West”
Rome, 18 July (LaPresse) – “They’re competing to see who can capitalise most on the jeweller’s case, which has absolutely nothing to do with self-defence.” This is what M5S leader Giuseppe Conte wrote on social media. “Having failed on security, with crime rampant everywhere, they’ve found a cunning way to shift the blame onto the public: ‘Dear citizens, get yourselves a gun and take the law into your own hands,’ he adds. They don’t tell us, however, that if everyone were to apply the rule of ‘do-it-yourself justice’, that very jeweller would have been dead long ago. In 2005, Mr Roggero broke into the home of his daughter’s boyfriend, violently assaulting him and eventually drawing a gun with which he threatened him and his parents. Applying the same logic the government is using to spin the Roggero case, could the victims then have caught up with him as he left the house and shot him in the back? It is the State that must guarantee our safety, if we do not want Italy to become the Wild West. We must not resign ourselves to this quagmire, to a government that thinks only of shielding itself rather than providing answers and solutions to real problems. We will emerge from this quagmire together. These will be months of struggle, commitment and participation.”
