Hands off Cain guest at Casapound: “Let’s walk a stretch of road together”

Nobody touches Cain and CasaPound. An unexpected axis against the “civil and social drama” of prisons. The conference organized by the movement led by Gianluca Iannone with the association affiliated to the radical party was held last night in the occupied building in via Napoleone III, which saw the president, secretary and treasurer of Hands Off Caino, Rita Bernardini, Sergio D’Elia and Elisabetta Zamparutti, dialogue with the Veronese lawyer Roberto Bussinello and the editor-in-chief of the National Primacy Valerio Benedetti. BERNARDINI: “INSULTED BY CONFERENCE, EVEN BY SOME RADICAL” A very crowded conference, broadcast live on Radio Radicale, which was also preceded by some controversy that also involved the radical world: “There are things we can do together” he wanted immediately clarify Bernardini addressing the Casapound exponents and adding: “I do not deny that I also received insults when I posted the poster of this event. And I am surprised that there are also radical elements among those who reacted in this way. Evidently they have forgotten Pannella’s lesson , of that face to face with Almirante which was a high moment in the political debate, and they also forgot that our Massimo Bordin came here to talk about Radio Radicale. A few years ago I made an inspection in the prison of Viterbo with Casapound , an excellent job came out of it. My invitation is therefore to take a stretch of road together. And maybe to discuss other topics as well: a debate on prohibition and anti-prohibitionism, for example, could be very interesting “. D’ELIA: “THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE OTHER IS THE NUMBER OF NO TOUCH CAIN” On the same theme D’Elia explained how “the encounter with the other is also the figure of Hands Off Cain”. “In the collective imagination this is Cain’s lair – he said referring to Casapound – but the humanity of Cain must be protected because the protection of those who are other than us is creative. They tell us that we should rather go to the sections of the Democratic Party, of the other parties … and we go there, but are they still there? “. In short, for D’Elia “any proposal for ‘harm reduction’ must be supported” and with Casapound, therefore, the axis is possible. Indeed, a point of contact was found precisely on the “overcoming of the prison institution” of which the lawyer Bussinello spoke, telling of some extreme situations that he found himself facing in the exercise of his profession. “In the Constitution the word prison is never mentioned – said Bernardini on this point – in article 27 we speak rather of punishments in the plural”. At the center of the debate is also the question of “crimonogenic prison” and the need to push for alternative penalties. “Over 70% of those who leave go back to crime – said Bernardini – while for those who access alternative penalties the recidivism rate is 5%”. ZAMPARUTTI: “STOP PANPENALISM”. BERNARDINI: “IN ITALY 35 THOUSAND CASES OF CRIME” There is also harmony on the question of ‘pan-criminalism’, that is, “the bulimic introduction of crimes into the Italian legal system” brought up by Zamparutti, who stigmatized how criminal law is increasingly frequent “used to govern any social problem”. In this regard Bernardini recalled how, according to a study, there are “35 thousand types of crime in Italy and 150 thousand laws”, numbers that “do not exist in any other European country” and that make it impossible for citizens to juggle the rules, of done by invalidating the ‘ignorantia legis non excusat’ principle.