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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to mention that the right to the sanctity of life and to human dignity – which is upheld in the loftier part of the Fava report – is an absolute value in which we all believe and for which we are prepared to fight.
Mr Fava goes further, however, and becomes a one-sided inquisitor: he grants this right to terrorists but not to the secret agents incriminated and arrested in Milan by a judge who has denied the head of the Italian secret service, General Pollari, the right to a defence, since he has rejected his request to call the previous Head of Government, Silvio Berlusconi, and the present incumbent, Romano Prodi, as witnesses.
Mr Fava criticises, condemns and deplores all the governments of Europe, in addition to the US Administration. It does not matter to Mr Fava that an undercover intelligence operation and the squeezing of a terrorist’s right to human dignity may have prevented a repetition of the Twin Towers tragedy. The report criticises, deplores and condemns all the governments of Europe, whether on the right or on the left, as well as the Council of Europe itself, as being guilty of colluding with and submitting to the hated enemy George W. Bush.
Can it be that only Mr Fava is right and that the judges of just three countries – Italy, Spain and Germany – are the heroes of this report? Yet the centre-left Italian Government under Romano Prodi has challenged the documents – the ones produced by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Milan – before the Constitutional Court in order to protect State secrets. For Mr Fava, only terrorists have the right to a defence. General Pollari, the head of the Italian secret service, should not defend himself: he is guilty. He cannot reveal, however, that Abu Omar, a suspected CIA agent, was picked up to save him from certain death, so much so that he was not taken to Guantánamo but sent back to his own country, and he is now at liberty. Abu Omar is a CIA spy. General Pollari is right, but it does not matter. Human rights law has been violated and that cannot be tolerated, not even if it was done to save human lives and ensure the security of the Member States.
A great mentor of mine, the jurist Salvatore Pugliatti, used to say that laws are female and can be violated, whereas the Law is male and cannot. We are on the side of the Law, and not of laws."@en1
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