Ciro Esposito, protomartire partenopeo mentre Roma tace

Ciro Esposito, il giovane tifoso del Napoli colpito da pistolettate a Roma prima della finale di Coppa Italia, è morto alle prime ore di questa mattina nel reparto di Rianimazione del Policlinico Gemelli, dove era ricoverato, dopo 50 giorni di ricovero.

Ciro è un ‘eroe’, morto per difendere donne e bambini di un altro autobus di tifosi, attaccati con bombe razzi e potenti petardi da un noto teppista romano – Daniele De Santis – e i suoi complici, che armati di pistola avevano teso un agguato nella speranza di scatenare scontri tra i partenopei e i fiorentini.

Ciro è un martire, che ha perso la vita per un unico motivo: era napoletano, era di Scampia. Ma perchè?

Innanzitutto, perchè la Questura /Prefettura di Roma aveva collocato il parcheggio dei bus campani a 1,5 chilometri dallo stadio proprio dove, solitamente, si incontrano ultras romani e il noto De Santis era titolare di un chiosco di ristoro, senza prevedere vigilanza e protezione per decine di migliaia di italiani (con famiglie e bambini al seguito) che si recavano festosi alla partita.

In secondo luogo, perchè la Regione Lazio non aveva previsto un sistema di soccorsi adeguato, nonostante vi fosse un afflusso pari a quello avvenuto per i Rolling Stones, e Ciro è arrivato in ospedale molto tempo dopo essere stato ferito.

Inoltre, a 50 giorni dai fatti le indagini vanno a rilento, di Daniele De Santis non si sa neanche se sia in carcere, sui suoi complici silenzio e mistero.

Infine,  è morto per le ferite subite, ma anche per le infezioni contratte ‘dopo’, in ospedale, a Roma, per cui sarà da comprendere se le sentenze riusciranno ad individuare un resposnsabile per il suo omicidio.

Ma Ciro Esposito è martire per un motivo su tutti: il disinteresse, fastidio e imbarazzo che Roma e i romani hanno dimostrato per la vicenda.

Partiamo dalla cronaca RAI della partita, esclusivamente focalizzata sui ‘napoletani’, sulla salva di mortaretti partita dalla curva, sulla ‘lite per fatti di droga’, su Genny ‘a carogna, mentre c’erano feriti e morti (come ahimè oggi possiamo constatare) e mentre tante famiglie a casa volevano notizie.

Passiamo alla Casta romana, che è riuscita solo ad arricciare il naso infastidita per la maglietta Speziale Libero esibita sugli spalti e per i fischi all’inno italiano, che – caso mai non se ne fossero accorti – sono prassi consolidata alle falde del Vesuvio e che meriterebbero più di un mea culpa da parte di Roma Capitale.

Arrivando al ‘Sistema’ – ogni regione ha il suo – che l’indomani riusciva a piantonare Ciro Esposito per rissa, ma non a denunciare chi aveva nascosto la pistola, negando all’inverosimile che i pullman partenopei fossero stati assaliti da un gruppo organizzato di romani, brancolando nel buio nonostante ci fossero facce (e cognomi) sotto lo striscione di ‘solidarietà per De Santis’, la domenica dopo allo stadio. D’altra parte, cosa aspettarsi da un ‘Sistema’ che per oltre 20 anni ha vessato e perseguitato Diego Armando Maradona, il calciatore più grande di tutti i tempi?

Dunque, Ciro Esposito è un martire e, come preciserebbero altrove, un martire del terrorismo.

Infatti, è terrorismo bello e buono che un gruppo ‘terzo’ di persone si associ per assalire una tifoseria allo scopo di scagliarsi contro l’altra al solo scopo di scatenare disordini e caos nel centro della Capitale. Fatti già accaduti a Roma, ma tra tifoserie avverse romaniste e laziali, che avevano coinvolto negli scontri interi quartieri, anche con assalti e incendi ai commissariati.
E, forse, Ciro è anche un martire del razzismo, se a Roma – come a Dallas negli Anni ’60 – si continuasse ad essere distratti verso chi  inneggia liberamente all’odio ‘etnico’ da anni e anni.

La famiglia di Ciro ha lanciato un appello alle istituzioni: “Noi chiediamo alle istituzioni di fare la loro parte. Daniele De Santis non era solo. Vogliamo che vengano individuati e consegnati alla giustizia i suoi complici. Vogliamo che chi, nella gestione dell’ordine pubblico, ha sbagliato paghi. Innanzitutto il prefetto di Roma che non ha tutelato l’incolumità dei tifosi napoletani. Chiediamo al presidente del Consiglio di accertare le eventualità responsabilità politiche di quanto accaduto. Nessuno può restituirci Ciro ma in nome suo chiediamo giustizia e non vendetta”.

Bisognerebbe far qualcosa, ma è difficile pensare che Roma, come don Abbondio, riesca a non essere puntualmente prona con i propri ‘coatti’, specie se Cinecittà è riuscita a trasformarli quasi in eroi angelici, mentre sono rozzi e brutali come quelli che nel cinema e nella tv – made in Rome – abitano sempre a Scampia …
Figuriamoci a mandare a casa politici, apparati sportivi e enti locali che in questi venti anni hanno ostacolato in ogni modo la ristrutturazione degli stadi e la privatizzazione delle gestioni, la collocazione dei reati da stadio tra quelli gravi per la sicurezza pubblica, la crescita dei vivai e della pratica sportiva giovanile.
Altrove sarebbe già allarme se per una partita una di calcio si debbano mobilitare interi battaglioni di forza pubblica … e già scandalo se per andare in Nazionale contassero più i gossip rosa o la volgarità piuttosto che le qualità sportive di impegno e sacrificio degli atleti.

Dunque, è anche difficile credere che, nel periodo medio-lungo, non lascino il segno l’ignavia con cui Roma – incluso il proprio sindaco ed il proprio vescovo – sta affrontando la vicenda di Ciro Espostito, senza sprecare almeno una lacrima, e l’arroganza con cui sta deludendo milioni di campani e di meridionali. A partire dalle Due Sicilie che le cui insegne si vedono sempre più di frequente e che hanno ancora un re legittimo, Felipe di Borbone, mentre ieri sera non erano in pochi a tifare per l’Uruguay contro l’Italia.

Sarà difficile vietare le magliette ‘Giustizia per Ciro Esposito’  …

leggi anche Rome, fanatic football fan shoots in the crowd. Hate crime against Neapolitans?

originale postato su demata

Rome, fanatic football fan shoots in the crowd. Hate crime against Neapolitans? All the story

Last saturday in Rome, three Neapolitan football supporters were injuried by gun shoots, while they are going to the Olimpic Stadium of the Italian Capital for the final game of Coppa Italia, the National Soccer Cup).
For one of them, Ciro Esposito, the bullet hit the spine and he could not more walk. The shooter is Daniele “Gastone” De Santis, a 48 y.o. notorius leader of Roman supporters, frequently tried, but never convicted.

foto pubblicata da Osservatorio Antifascista del Golfo

Everything had started with the ‘bad idea’ to use of a parking lot – known as meeting place for Roman supporters and extreme Right skinheads – to park Neapolitan’s cars. Especially if the owner of the kiosk is Daniele “Gastone” De Santis, which in the past had helped to stop an important football game in Rome with heavy risks for people in the stadium.
And even more so if there – a parking lot with a thousand ways of escape for those who know the area – the City of Rome had not even sent a patrol to handle the traffic …
In the pictures published by Il Mattino, the most important newspaper of Naples, a group of Roman thugs assault a coach of Neapolitan fans: “They launched two bombs against the bus, we were afraid and asked for help to Ciro and other fans, so the clashes started”.

So the thugs escaped, but “Gastone” tumbled and, showy reached by the mob, pulled out a illegally detained gun, exploding 4 shots. One shot in the chest (and spine) of Cyrus, the other two injured other Neapolitans at limbs and with the last blow he struck himself in the leg.
Only after the shots, “Gastone” is reached from the crowd and severely beaten, as Donatella Baglivo – director and manager of the Ciak, the club which is part of the parking, and his first rescuer – testifies as a crowd was on him but she does not hear the shots and if they were a lot, as she says, namely that there was no intentional kill, since “Gastone” was beated and not lynched.

Db Roma 18/10/2013 – campionato di calcio serie A / Roma-Napoli nella foto: tifosi Roma © foto di Daniele Buffa/Image Sport

After this criminal action, through Neapolitans came to Rome for the game, anger, rage, tensions start to grow.

Limited clashes before to entry, but the behaviour of the Neapolitans in the stadium was nervously calm: they retire the flags and almost silent await official and ‘sure’ news of what happened … also because the media kept saying that it was not a clash of fans, but by common criminals, while people knew ‘in real-time’ that was not so … and while – as media explained later – the game could not start ‘however’ because teams buses had arrived late, for the chaos after the shooting, and the players were not yet ready.

During 40 long minutes, we saw on television lost looks of the highest offices of the Italian State – to present the final award – and a tattooed man that emerges from the – shocked, indignant, worried, resigned – Neapolitans crowd and speaks for her. His name? Better the nickname: he is Genny the carrion, leader of Neapolitan downtown supporters, son of a camorrist.
A rude man who – in ‘that’ situation – had the power to impose calm to the most angry fan groups, armed with strong firecrackers, rockets and occasional weapons.
And – by television – we have seen he tried to stop a first and powerful launch of firecrakers, smoke bombs and flares, when the police approached the stands, and he – at the second attempt and with the beloved captain of the football team, Marek Hamsik, at the head of a public officials team – lifts thumb (signal that the fan in the hospital was not life-threatening), and the game begins with a calmer mind for everyone.
At this point the ceremony involved the Italian anthem and, as happened at other times, massive boos rise from the Neapolitan stands.

Yesterday, we would have expected titles on media such as Rome out of control, the absence of the politics, citizens insecure, racism against Napoli, etc. Elsewhere, but not in Italy.

Few news on Daniele “Gastone” De Santis, the shooter. Still, someone should at least explain us his ‘career’, begun 20 years ago, when he was also accused of having been part of a supporters commando outside the Rigamonti stadium of Brescia. Especially if De Santis was acquitted for not having committed the crime and received a compensation of two million and 900 thousand lire.

Cries and outrage, however, if a commoner, rough and threatening, has the power to reassure the crowd while the top institutions are going to look astonished, and all the happy ending is entrusted to the wisdom of a prefect, Giuseppe Pecoraro, born in Palma Campania near Naples …

Institutions have not to talk with Camorra to have the permit to play the game, this the sense of ‘general indignation’, but in Olimpic Stadium – as anyone could see on last saturday night – there were just Neapolitans, as the Prefect, as Genny the carrion, as 3-40.000 worried supporters. Tv pictures have shown no negotiation, but a short  talk, as can be seen from the general relief that Neapolitan fans will the game goes on.

Hard to believe, but Cyrus and the two other slightly injured Neapolitans are under arrest, accused of fighting, and on the front page of yesterday news we can read on Secondigliano and the Neapolitan Camorra.
But not about Rome and its dangerous suburbs, Roman supporters and their usual devastations, shortcomings of the municipal police, the large amount of buildings and public spaces occupied / camped, the level of insecurity of citizens, a more proactive system of justice … until to the notorious Roman malpractice, if – as seems – the injuried had to wait more than one hour for the first aid.

Meanwhile, for the first time in Italy, a person was shot by only reason of being a Neapolitan. Proud to be Neapolitan.

Foto da http://letteremeridiane.blogspot.it

Twenty years ago, arriving in Rome, I was sadly surprised by the words ‘I hate Naples’ that stood out in plain sight in front of a high school site in the district – leftist and Romanist – of Testaccio. Surprised because no one even dreamed of deleting that letter, and remained there for years, as were everywhere banned those anti-Semitic or xenophobic.
Racist graffiti that fomented hatred against Naples and Neapolitans, tolerated in the Italian capital – in its schools – for nearly twenty years, while, further north, the continuous mockery and denigration of the Neapolitans were regarded as ‘humour’.
It is not a coincidence that the worst thing that happened in Rome on Saturday, after the firings on the crowd and the blank stares of our institutions, were the offensive choruses that the Florentines fans have addressed the Neapolitans to provoke them.
One more time, as usual in our stadiums.

Even worse if politics and media will attempt to manage the ‘story’ as ‘kindly Neapolitan and not just Roman’.

It is not (only) a question of hooligans or of new (more sure) stadiums. Not just the beloved public contracts and the ‘heavy’ gains by brand merchandising.
Daniele “Gastone” De Santis – maybe – did not an ‘hate crime’, but to ignore the causes and the developing of this escalation could be an important vector for ‘hate’ and ‘crime’.

Maybe for some it is not clear what happened: after more than twenty years of racism towards the Neapolitans – conveyed by politicians and the media, but never sanctioned – it was inevitable that, sooner or later, a fanatic shoots in the crowd …

originale postato su demata

Fake evidences against Syria?

The anti -Assad propaganda uses big names, powerful televisions , accredited journalists. And when the credited newspapers are popular not even need the sensationalism so demonized by the readers and/or if  propaganda news are fed on sensationalism, it does not matter. The average man filters it and recognizes it as ‘reliable information’.

That ‘s what happened to the BBC , British television followed all over the world. (Source Coscienzeinrete)

In fact , the BBC – became by months in a sort of anti -Assad propaganda tool – published ashock-photo, presenting it as taken in the Syrian city of Hula and sent by some activists in Syria to witness the massacres implemented by Assad’s forces.

But it is a fake, as the author, a freelance photographer, reported on Facebook by over one year.
“It ‘s an Italian and his name is Marco Di Lauro . When he took the photo was March 27, 2003 in Al Musayyib , an Iraqi city 40 km south of Baghdad. ” (source ECPlanet )

Marco Di Lauro Photographer – Reportage by Getty Images

‘Somebody is using illegaly one of my images for anti syrian propaganda on the BBC web site front page.
Today – Sunday May 27 at 0700 am London time – the attached image which I took in Al Mussayyib in Iraq on March 27, 2003 was front page on BBC web site illustrating the massacre that happen in Houla, a Syrian town, and the caption and the web site was stating that the images was showing the bodies of all the people that have been killed in the massacre and that the image was received by the BBC by an unknown activist. Somebody is using my images as a propaganda against the Syrian government to prove the massacre.’

This is the post on 27 May 2012 (link) where it is also stated that the report by Marco Di Lauro was ‘by Getty Images’, one of the largest photo agencies in the world.

How the BBC has been able to sink in the mud of war propaganda is really a mystery.

“Houla carnage” news showed by BBC

On the other side, we hope that – today better than tomorrow – Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron will notice that Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the person of Emma Bonino, and the Holy See seem to have different and a lot more accurate informations on Syrian ‘state of art’ than those bandied by United States or United Kingdom.

originale postato su demata

The Obama’s Syrian War. What do we need to know?

The United States and the United Kingdom are ‘ready to attack within ten days’, but Moscow warns on a ‘new Iraqi adventure’ and that “the consequences would be very serious”.” Assad, the Syrian president, promises: “They expect failure.” According to the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, the decision will be taken “within 48 hours” after the  yesterday’s lengthy consultation meeting between Barack Obama and David Cameron.
The White House denies, but the French president, Hollande, indirectly confirms ‘it will be decided within the next week’  and the BBC reported that the British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, believes that a response to the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime would be possible without the unanimous support of the Security Council of the United Nations.
Meanwhile, the UN inspectors are looking for traces of nerve gas used against the insurgents in the oasis of Ghouta in Syria, while tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds and Palestinian refugees are joining those who seek to leave the country by all means.

The locations of military forces in the area is high and the risk of escalation is substantial.

HMS Illustriuos – photo by maritimequest.com

The Royal Navy provides a massive naval presence including a nuclear-powered submarine, the aircraft carrier HMS Illustriuos, the helicopter carrier HMS Bulwark and at least 4 frigates, as well as air cover is guaranteed by the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus.

In addition to the presence of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and the rapid intervention force deployed in Sicily and some squadrons in the  Incirilik air base in Izmir -Turkey, to which we could add the F-16 fighters deployed in Jordan, the U.S. has placed near Syrian coasts at least four of Arleigh Burke class destroyers.

The dashboard of a system AEGIS – from Wikipedia

These destroyers are armed with 96 Tomahawk cruise missiles, effective for targets up to 2,500 km away, but, above all, with AEGIS systems, an electronic warfare, capable of integrating the various subsystems, reacting the ship in the presence of surface, aerial and underwater threats.

Italy has in Lebanon the Cavalry Brigade “Pozzuolo del Friuli”, deployed for Operation Leonte, commissioned by the Prodi government in 2006. France has a substantial terrestrial presence (including 16 Leclerc heavy tanks and ALAT, a light aviation support) and in 2006 had moved Siroco and Mistral amphibious ships and  the frigates Jean Bart and Jean de Vienne. Germany has about 200 men, mostly workers in logistics and intelligence, and two patrol ships.

Russia has sent in its historic naval base of Tartus, toward the Syrian border with Lebanon and in the face of Cyprus,  a dozen vessels at least, according to the Wall Street Journal, while Russian civilians in Syria are estimated at 30,000 people according to the Financial Times, but it is supposed they are more than 50.000.

Admiral Kuznetsov – from naval-technology.com

Among these ships, there is the team led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, which carries the multirole advanced fighters Su-33 and  Ka-27, Ka-28, Ka-29, Ka-32 attack helicopters. It is equipped with the Granit anti-ship system, an ultra-modern electronic warfare technology and  Kortik Klinok anti-aircraft systems, plus UDAV that offers protection against submarines. In Tartus facilities it was dispatched also the presence of Ropucha class amphibious assault ships – the Aleksandr Otrakovskiy, the Georgiy Pobedonosets and the Kondopoga – with hundreds of Marines on board, and a task force that includes the anti-submarine destroyer Admiral Panteleyev, the frigate Yaroslav Mudry, other huge amphibious assault ships – the Peresvet, the Kaliningrad, the Alexander Shablinaltre and the Admiral Nevelskoi, plus several vessels equipped for electronic warfare as Slava class missile cruisers, as Tango and Kilo classes submarines, as Grisha or Dergach classes corvettes.
Not far there is also the entire Black Sea Fleet, stationed in the Black Sea and, in particular, as rapid response, the 25th Regiment equipped with at least twenty Ka-27 and Mi-14 helicopters, the 917th Airborne Regiment and the 43rd Squadron with  Su-24M and Su-24MR 4 aircrafts.

Russian Marines in Tartus – from Globalpost.com

The Russian Defense Minister, on Pravda, said recently that Russia does not intend to withdraw one man from the base of Tartus, which is its only option in the Mediterranean and this explains Moscow’s position regarding Syria and reveals the fear of being undermined by its outpost, in case of a fall of Assad.
Considering also that Russia has invested heavily in recent years on its fleet and tools for electronic warfare, motivation seems not just obvious, but broadly plausible, in view of the delicate international balance.

The Izvetzia today published a lengthy interview with Syrian President Assad (link), which has denied the use of chemical weapons and accused Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabis to encourage and finance the insurgents. In addition, “all the contracts concluded with Russia are have been fulfilled. And neither the crisis, nor pressure from the U.S., Europe and the Gulf states have prevented their implementation. Russia supplies Syria what what it requires for its defense, and for the defense of its people.

Several states who oppose the Syrian people have inflicted serious damage upon our economy, primarily due to the economic blockade, because of which we now suffer. Russia acted quite differently.
The current economic sanctions are preventing Syrian citizens from receiving food, medicine and fuel. These are basic products needed for living. And, accordingly, what the Syrian government is doing now by signing agreements with Russia and other friendly countries allows us to establish guarantees for these products.

When national security is weakened, this results in a weakening of the economic position. And it goes without saying that the fact that Russia supplies Syria’s military contracts will lead to an improvement of the economic situation in Syria.

Russia’s support for our right to assert our own independence right from the start has helped our economy. Several states who oppose the Syrian people have inflicted serious damage upon our economy, primarily due to the economic blockade, because of which we now suffer. Russia acted quite differently.

And specifically addressing the economy – any line of credit from a friendly country such as Russia, is beneficial for both sides. For Russia that may mean expanding markets and new opportunities for Russian companies, while for Syria it is an opportunity to raise funds to develop its own economy.‘

If this is the opininion of ‘the other side’, the announcement of the White House to ‘stay studying the Kosovo model’ leaves really perplexed, because we are talking – today – of the ‘black hole’ of all black trades located in the middle of the Balkans, as well the ethnic massacres were perpetrated even by the ‘goods’.

Among other things, Syria has an army of around 300,000 soldiers, over 350 different MIG fighters, even recently updated, and 70 Sukoi for ground attack, hundreds of attack helicopters, a dozen Osa class missile patrol boats, at least 2,000 anti-aircraft vehicles and over 4,000 anti-aircraft shoulder-missiles, fifty rockets and tactical ballistic missiles  (Frog, Scud and OTR-21 Tochka classes), thousands of pieces of artillery and multiple rocket launchers, nearly five thousand T54/55, T62 and T72 class tanks of Russian production.

The risk of a new Iraqi disaster is obvious. And this time, it could happens on the outskirts of Jerusalem and in the face of Cyprus.

In Syria the problem triggering the conflict is given by the onset of the Sunni classes against the  Alawite minority who has always supported the Assad family. But … we know ‘how’ certain moralizing movements goes as prove in Egypt with the white coup of Morsi and Brothers Muslims and  the subseguent militar reaction.

Syria is bordered by Iraq, not yet at peace, by Lebanon, which shows a large presence of UNIFIL ‘interim’ armies, by Israel, which does not look kindly on “the crusaders in the Holy Land ‘, by Turkey, where Erdogan is pushing for a confessional state, by Jordan, where the impact of refugees and the Palestinian tensions are already alarming and where in the last months European Union has sent a team of the European Civil Protection Mechanism.

The war in Iraq against the dictator Saddam Hussein turned out to be a disaster for the Iraqi people, a good deal for the U.S. and British oil companies, a rich take over for a some of the many billionaires sheikhs that Saudi Arabia gives birth, an oxygen tank for Wall Street and the Western occupation during a decade.

Syria had in 2010 a GDP of about $ 60 billion, has an oil production of 522,700 b / d, compared with a consumption of 265,000 b / d, a good industrial presence. Economic development has been hindered by the  ‘non-aligned’ placement of Syria on the Iraqi question, which affects trade with Western countries. The increase of commodity prices in global markets have led to a sharp increase in the rate of inflation and unemployment.

After the disaster of Iraq, the endless war in Afghanistan, the chaos of Libya, the military dictatorship in Egypt, the paralysis of Lebanon and Jordan, the risk is of another mess realized by Britain and the United States, because they fail to understand (and correctly manage) those territories and cultures – as it is now evident – since the days of Lawrence of Arabia and the failed Anglo-Afghan Wars, after the heavy conseguences of disjointing Otoman Turkey, Italian Two Sicilies and Spanish Catalonia in the Mediterranean Sea.

A Mediterranean area on which darken dark clouds are coming, not only for the North African instability or for the Israeli-Palestinian issue, but also for the interference of Saudi Arabia and its ability to make pressure on Wall Street and London.
And, maybe, for the old habit of the United States Presidents to wage war somewhere else when things do not go well in homeland for the faction they belong.

Meanwhile, China People’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reminds Barack Obama can not afford to wage war on the basis of false accusations, as it happened with G. W. Bush, stating that “all nations should handle the issue of chemical weapons with caution, to avoid interfering in the general effort to solve the Syrian issue through a political solution.”

originale postato su demata