Migrants: Italy meritocracy on Lucano, ‘citizens ask for a justice free from suspicion’

“Today, a judicial affair that has captured strong media and social attention in the last two years reaches its first epilogue. Mimmo Lucano, former mayor of Riace, is sentenced to 13 years and 2 months in prison, almost double the penalty required by the prosecution “. Thus Meritocrazia Italia in a note. “While waiting to know the reasons for a provision that seems abnormal, the severity of the sentence inflicted confuses public opinion. even more burdensome than the one adopted for mafia-type crimes, much more deserving of reproach “. “The news comes, in short, as yet another blow inflicted on citizens’ trust in the justice system. Precisely in the difficult moment in which – underlines Meritocrazia Italia – the well-known events of the last few months have stained the judicial system with ill repute, contradictions and opacity, in spite of the need for loyalty and protection of a population already exhausted by the social and economic crisis brought about by the pandemic “. “Never losing faith in the institutions, Meritocrazia Italia invokes a Justice inspired by the real hierarchy of values ​​proposed by the Constitutional Charter, sensitive to personalistic needs, capable of bringing solidarity back to the center of every solution, and thus capable of guaranteeing Social balances. It calls for – the note points out – a Justice free from the suspicion that the decision is not based on reasons of fairness, but that it is rather subject to political and media conditioning. the priorities, to regain an adequate degree of civilization and to respond to the urgent need of citizens to trust and believe in the seriousness of the judicial system “.