Marta Cartabia, Minister of Justice, was very impressed by the welcome from Sassari and Sardinia. At the entrance the folk group of Orgosolo with tenores and dances. Inside the Music Conservatory, the carpets of Nule, the music of the students of the “Canepa” institute which hosts the European Forum on Restorative Justice until Saturday morning. As many as 350 people from 40 countries arrived in the city.
First greetings from the rector of the University of Sassari Gavino Mariotti, the mayors of Sassari and Tempio, Nanni Campus and Gianni Addis, the president of the Ivano Iai Conservatory and the president of the European Forum Tim Chapman, the director of the Forum Edit Trorzs and the professor Patrizia Patrizi, who brought the 11th International Conference of Restorative Justice to Sassari.
The minister's speech was long and complex. First in Italian to thank for the welcome: "Never had one like it, the presence of so many members of the community already demonstrates the strength of restorative justice, that of involving everyone, an important teaching in an increasingly individualistic society, gripped by fear and distrust ".
The Keeper said that there is still much to be done to strengthen financial and human resources and to concretely develop restorative justice, and that the Reform is moving in that direction. He then added: "Restorative Justice is a new way of seeing Justice, with the voluntary participation of the victim and the offender in the path of dialogue that also involves the community and helps to improve social relations, as demonstrated by the case of the city of Tempio with the Nuchis prison ".
At the end of the speech, two minutes of sincere applause from the hall which became a standing ovation.
The minister will be in Cagliari tomorrow, where he will meet the heads of the Court of Appeal and the judicial offices at 10 in the Great Hall of the Palace of Justice, together with the employees of the Trial Office. At noon he will be in the "Ettore Scalas" prison in Uta, to inaugurate a laboratory dedicated to the reconditioning of network modems, and will sign, together with the minister for technological innovation and digital transition, Vittorio Colao, in connection with the "Lorusso prison and Cutugno "of Turin, the memorandum of understanding of the" Prison work "program.