the ROME – A manifest to ensure rights to family members of innocent victims of the mafia. Hundreds of people from across Italy gathered in piazza Montecitorio, for a garrison where the Free association has illustrated a series of requests “for justice and for respect of the rights set forth by law”. “While the Chamber vote of confidence in the “Milleproroghe” the fruit of laborious compromise – said the president of the Free don Louis Ciotti – we are here in the square in silence to express our distrust. But we should never forget the positive things of these years, we want to continue to give confidence to the serious policy. However, we must raise the voice when someone chooses silence. We cannot stand silent and defenseless”.
Again: “The most dangerous mob is the mafia of the words, is inertia, the bureaucracy, the promise and not do. And in the manifesto shown in the public square asks politics to give answers to their concerns and we believe it is a priority to change the meaning of the measures provided for in favour of the victims, in what today are defined as ‘benefits’, while it would be fair and culturally appropriate to define them as ‘rights'”.
These are the requests Free:
– who is recognized the status of victims of the mafia, even to people who have lost their lives as a result of events and crimes of the mafia in date prior to January 1, 1961, and which meet the conditions for recognition of the same;
– equivalence of victims of duty and of the mafias of the victims of terrorism, in order to avoid further disparity among the victims, according to the type of event a crime;
– that, with regard to the irrelevance of the victim and his family up to the 4th grade, as provided by the rules, is made on a case by case assessment, in relation to the occupation of the survivor and the family of the victim and not on the degree of the relationship;
– that, in the matter of prescriptions and declines, also provided by a recent circular of the Ministry of the Interior, both made a careful and urgent reflection to avoid interpretations unfairly restrictive;
– a reordering raisonné of all the rules that govern the rights (benefits) provided for in favour of the victims of the mafias, in order to make effective the enjoyment that compared to some of the fundamental points is very often only on paper; as well as ask that the time of the evaluation of the single instances are not dilatino dramatically;
– that the attention to the victim is placed in the center of the reflection of the legislator, in order to make it operational also in Italy the european directives on the protection of the victim and his family, is it recognised, in particular with respect to the same position of the families of the victims in the process, visibly limited compared to that of the offender, given the approach reocentrico of our trial system;
– promote support for victims of violent intentional crime, the so-called common criminals, in order not to leave alone, no person is made a victim by episodes of serious violence.
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