Corrado Augias returns the Legion of Honor in protest against Regeni- Corriere.it

In a letter published on Republic, Augias writes: Dear Director, tomorrow, Monday, December 14, I will go to the French Embassy to return the insignia of the Legion of Honor that was conferred on me at that time. A gesture in the same serious and purely symbolic, could say sentimental. I feel that I have to do it because of the deep cultural and emotional bond that binds me to France, my family’s homeland. After announcing his decision, the journalist explains the reasons for his action.: My opinion that President Macron should not have bestowed the Legion of Honor on a head of state who objectively made himself complicit in heinous criminals. I say this for the memory of the unfortunate Giulio Regeni, but also for France, for the importance that this recognition still represents more than two centuries after its foundation. Augias speaks repeatedly of a limit that must not be exceeded: there are times when even heads of state must stick to what the Americans call The right thing, The right thing. I think President Emmanuel Macron did something unfair in this case.

Augias always on Republic he also published the full text of the letter delivered to the ambassador, in which he writes. The murder of Giulio Regeni represents for Italians a blood wound and an insult, I would have expected from President Macron a gesture of understanding, if not brotherhood, also on behalf of that Europe that, together, we are working so hard to build.. I don’t want to sound more naive than him. I am quite familiar with the mechanics of business and diplomacy, but I also know that there is a measure, let me repeat it in the words of the Latin poet Horacio: There are, so that they are finally persuaded, the ends of the, in which justice cannot bear what was right. I think that in this case the measure of the righteous has been exceeded, even outraged. With deep regret. “