VIDEO | Zerocalcare: “For ‘girls’ we’re talking about prison and special laws, you have to be super careful”
The author against repression for youth demonstrations. And on the conflict in the Middle East: "A problem that can no longer concern only October 7th"
TURIN – There is also space for politics during la presentation of Zerocalcare’s latest book. From the space of the newspaper La Stampa inside the Turin Book Fair, the author launches broadsides.
“IF ISRAEL CONTINUES TO BOMB PROBLEM IT’S NO LONGER OCTOBER 7”
Starting from the conflict in the Middle East: “I always try to express a coherent vision, I don’t think that a person can put a hat on one day and then take it off. I struggle to talk about what is happening, always referring only to the October 7. I wrote that it was barbaric, but if 35 thousand deaths, with all the spotlights in the world on it, we can’t even make a dent in it (Israel’s political action, ed.), >there is a problem that can no longer be traced back to October 7th.And it cannot be the alibi for what is continuing to happen.”
“READING OLD POLITICS”
Then on the vision and choices of those who lead the country, in his opinion anchored to the past: “Politics is not interested in what happens in the rest of the world: we don’t build ties, we find ourselves having an interpretation of the world that is often asphyxiated and starts from assumptions from 30-40 years ago
“JAIL, SPECIAL LAWS, THROW AWAY THE KEY TO ‘GIRLS’< /strong>“
He concludes with an invective against the repression of dissent: “Conflict is the engine of progress and democracy. The absence of conflict causes societies to become asphyxiated. The fact that rhetoric is used, not only by Institutions, but also in the common feeling, on social media, of “prison, special laws, throwing away the key” for things that I did not say in the 70s, but 15 years ago, would have been declassified as ‘ guys, it seems like something to be super careful about to me.”