Justice, Ambrogio Crespi: “I deeply believe in it, I am a man of incredible things”

“I accepted to speak even though I generally shirk. I don’t like speaking in public. I am a director and the language for which I express myself is different. But I am the man of incredible things”. Thus began the director Ambrogio Crespi in his speech on justice at the conference “Renewing Europe and politics: European democrats and Renew in Italy” organized at the Maxxi museum in Rome by Renew Europe and the European Democratic Party. “It is incredible – continued Crespi – that he was sentenced for external competition in the mafia association for bringing votes to a person I did not know. It is incredible that for this reason they managed to sentence me to 12 years in maximum security prison. ‘It is incredible that I found myself in the same prison where in 2016 I shot the Docufilm’ Spes Contra Spem, free inside ‘, a film that characterized my career, and that I came face to face with the same characters, an expression of a culture that I have fought “. “It is incredible – he added – that he was sent to prison and that he was released from an exemplary sentence by the Milan Supervisory Court after 4 months, with a sentence deferral pending the outcome of the request for grace presented by my family. together with the lawyers Marcello Elia and Andrea Nicolosi, with the support of the Committee for Ambrogio Crespi of NTC, of ​​the Volunteer Capitano Ultimo of Colonel Sergio De Caprio and many others. It is incredible that he is the only Italian convicted of mafia, pardoned after a few months from the definitive sentence by a President of the Republic whose brother is a martyr of the mafia “. It is incredible – added Crespi – that in March I entered prison and in September I was at ‘La Biennale del Cinema di Venezia’ with a film of which I was the author. It is incredible that I deeply believe in Italian justice. I who am the archetype of the victory of a prejudiced justice, myopic and stepmother, am here to tell you that my trust in Justice today is stronger than before. I have never screamed at the judges, I have tried in vain to defend myself in the courts and bad exercise, human error has never taken away my confidence. I who am the man of incredible things, I say this to each of you who make politics a passion. The credibility of justice is the cornerstone of a country, a country like ours that seeks a solid way for its future “.” So – he concluded – not even those who suffer injustice have the right to delegitimize justice, because it it is not the instrument of political battles or the manifestation of bureaucratic and oppressive power, but the bulwark of legality, the shield for the weakest, at least this should be and this we must commit ourselves to be. If this is the pact we are signing today, I am here “.