Friday 6/8/2021 at 17:30
Books
"Aperitif with the author" in Asiago, cultural meetings organized by the Giunti al Punto Library
Friday, August 06, 2021 will be held a new meeting of the literary review"Aperitif with the author",organized by the library Giunti al Punto di Asiago.
The lawyer Paolo Mele Senior will present to the public his book "Omissis - The right to defense between words and silences".
The meeting will be held as always in Piazza Carli at the piazzale del Duomo,in the center of Asiago,at 5.30pm.
INFO AND RESERVATIONS
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED to be made at the Tourist Information desk of the Municipality of Asiago
The reservation allows access to the reserved area at the piazzale del Duomo,in Asiago and, only in case of bad weather,at the first 170 bookings, the entrance to the Palazzo del Turismo Millepini.
It is recommended to maintain an interpersonal distance of at least one meter.
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BOOK "OMISSIS- The right to defense between words and silences" - Agorà Factory
We find, among these pages, dozens and dozens of judicial events that, in the last thirty years, have scattered the reality of Vicenza with small and large dramas. But the author, in his narration, does not dwell on the chronicle, preferring to delve into the complex plots of the mind of those who, of those events, were the protagonists, sometimes as responsible, others as victims.
And for everyone there is participation and pathos, not just professional. There is, above all, the desire to restore dignity to those names through facts, of course, but more by digging into the experience that led them on that date, on that occasion, to find themselves faced with a destiny, a choice, which from people has transformed them into characters making them dress, from time to time, the clothes of the victim , or those of the executioner.
The author knows, and tells us, that the role of the lawyer is not to choose who to side with. His task is to fight on behalf of his client by trying to follow the course of truth.
But even in this periglious crossing emerges all the sensitivity of the man who covers the toga: attentive reader and narrator of the humanity that flows alongside him; he always participates in events, yet with disenchantment; with that irony veiled in pessimism that is diluted only when his gaze dwells on the humblest, on the comprimari, on the least.
FROM THE INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY RACHELE NICOLIN
«In the collective imagination the figure of the criminal lawyer has always been wrapped in
a dark charm. An attraction solicited mainly by two qualities considered innate and possessed indistinctly by all defenders: the fortitude to keep secrets even on the most atrocious facts committed by their clients and the ability to improvise arguments to effect to persuade colleagues and magistrates of the innocence of their client.
Imagination, however, is far from reality; clients rarely confess their guilt to their lawyer and just as rarely a brilliant defensive strategy is based on improvisation. (...)
This book gives the reader a journey in which he is accompanied to meet dozens and dozens of people very different from each other for nationality, culture, social background, lifestyle and each meeting reveals, without prejudice, the human fragility of those who for one reason or another are involved in a criminal process.
A journey that intrigues and helps to understand how the criminal lawyer is not an azzeccagarbugli ready to do anything to prove the innocence of his client, an ally of his clients, an actor in search of applause but a professional who carries on his shoulders, in addition to the toga, all the suffering of those who assist, while preserving their independence or defending the rights that belong to all , even to the worst criminal, without wanting to approve the illegal conduct or want to adhere to the reasons that led to commit it.
THE AUTHOR AVV. PAOLO MELE SENIOR
Paolo Mele was born in Naples on March 9, 1953, where he graduated in law in 1976 at the Federico II University, with a thesis in Criminal Procedure entitled "Le perquisizioni".
he has been a member of the Vicenza Bar Association since 1984 and is a lawyer in the Supreme Court.
he was one of the founders of the Vicenza Criminal Chamber, of which he was a member of the Board for several years, promoting initiatives and meetings aimed at professional forensic training, covering, among other things, the role of head of the local Prison Observatory. In this capacity, moreover, he promoted the appointment of the Guarantor of Prisoners, still operating at the Prison, at the Municipal Administration of Vicenza.
For some years he worked as a publicist and columnist on social and legal issues for columns and newspapers. He has written other books in the artistic and cultural field, but this is the first in which he narrates his experience as a lawyer.
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