On Wednesday, July 18th we will begin with our four days of nonviolence, hunger strike and silence. From now until then, It will be necessary to prepare and explain well the reasons behind this choice.

The decision has been made thanks to the encouraging action undertaken by prof. Andrea Pugiotto who drafted an open letter to the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, which over 100 academics, including public and criminal law professors, have undersigned.

This extraordinary mobilisation renewed the sense of urgency for our crucial struggle for the reform of justice in Italy. The structural reform that we need can be achieved on all fronts, through an amnesty, so that all existing judicial structures can exit – immediately and after three decades – from the illegal condition in which they find themselves with respect to our Constitution, to European jurisdictions and to the very civil conscience of our Country.

We are also planning to celebrate the anniversary of July 28th, to celebrate that initiative – the “Justice! In the name of Law and the sovereign people” conference – possible thanks to the invitation and the hospitality of the President of the Italian Senate, Renato Schifani.

We have these two appointments and there will be another one, when President Napolitano receives prof. Pugiotto – with a delegation representing the subscribers of this extraordinary cultural, scientific and political document – to hand him the open letter, signed by a prestigious list of subscribers, a testimony of their sensibility, popular and expressing the “aristocracy” of science at the same time.