Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-07-Speech-4-071"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Aviation accident at Ustica2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991007.5.4-071"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-07-Speech-4-0722
lpv:speaker	lp:Renzo Imbeni2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2000-03-07)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2000-10-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as you can see, it is almost exclusively Members elected in Italy who are speaking, and this is significant. Various colleagues from other countries have asked me – what is Ustica? Why the urgency? This is a question, or rather, these are two very reasonable questions. Ustica, as perhaps a lot of people know, is a small island in the South Tyrrhenian Sea. Why this urgency though? It does not spring from something that has happened now but from something serious which happened almost twenty years ago. The urgency is because an Italian deputy Public Prosecutor has issued a judgement which identifies the high-level air force authorities as being to blame for covering things up, keeping quiet and not saying what they knew, which prevented the truth coming to light about what happened almost twenty years ago. So what happened? An aeroplane left my city, Bologna, two hours late but never reached its destination, Palermo. It was hit, so several parties say, by a missile during an aggressive act which took place nearby. Well, immediately afterwards, in the following days, weeks and years, there ensued an extraordinary criminal course of events which aimed to conceal the evidence, to silence people and to ensure that the truth did not come out. Why was all this done? This is why we need to take up this subject again today, as the course of Italian justice has entered the final and perhaps overdue stage of its inquiries. We are asking the Member States – because they say aircraft from one of the Member States or NATO might have been involved in that act of war – to help with information, which there is no longer any reason to keep confidential, concealed or secret, so that we really can bring the facts to light and the whole truth can be told. After all, the relatives of the 81 victims are asking for nothing more than to know the truth and to see that justice be done. I think this is not just an Italian internal affair, but is a service to the whole of European democracy."@en1

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