“I personally met Ambrogio Crespi and I appreciated his daily and concrete commitment against the mafias. I strongly believe in the words of the Milan supervisory judge when he recognizes that the institute of grace, in this case, is a means to remedy the injustice produced by justice “. Thus at AdnKronos the anticamorra priest Don Luigi Merola, who with Ambrogio Crespi worked on the film ‘Terra Mia’, commenting on the words of the president of the Supervisory Court of Milan, Giovanna di Rosa, at the IX congress of Hands Off Cain which took place carried out last week in the Opera prison. “The Grace granted by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella – observes Don Merola – fully represents an attempt by the State to remedy an injustice. Rosa’s judge himself recognizes a State that must put itself at the service of the person undergoing a trial and not to condemn the accused when the sentence has presumably already been expiated through rehabilitation and social reintegration “.” Article 27 of the Italian Constitution – explains the parish priest anticamorra – states that the penalties cannot consist of treatments contrary to the sense of humanity and must aim at the re-education of the condemned ‘, sanctioning the principle of proportionality of the sentence and the main purpose, which is re-education and not sanctioning. Consequently every sentence must be adequate, as well as every process according to article 111 of the Constitution must be right But a punishment that comes after so many years and in a context that is now completely right is really just new and changed entity of the person in question? Every punishment must never lose its purpose and must never aim at dehumanization, because a punishment that reaches a person who is now completely reintegrated into society after so many years can only have an opposite and negative effect “.” Crespi, who denies the commission of crimes – continues Don Merola -, was sentenced after a long trial and the sentence came after many years in which he was involved in the fight against the mafia through his work as a communications entrepreneur “.” The State – concludes – must return to administer justice with a capital G “.