hatred leaves room for forgiveness

After the intense story of the podcast, on Sky Tg24 (Monday 21 April at 9.00 pm) e Sky documentarias (Wednesday 23 April at 20.15), but also in streaming on Now And On demandarrives the Sky Originals documentary The embrace that shelters – forgive a crimedirected by Flavio Maspes and written by Niccolò Agliardiwho is also the protagonist of the story.

The documentary traces and deepens the extraordinary meeting between Lucia di mauro Mountain – widow of Gaetano Montaninokilled by the Camorra in 2009 – e Antonioone of the young people involved in his murder, giving a face to the protagonists of this story of forgiveness and redemption that he deeply shaken anyone who listened to it.

Niccolò Agliardi tells “The embrace that repairs – forgive a crime”

Sensitive author and narrator, in this documentary Niccolò Agliardi accompanies the viewer between words and silences, places and faces, injuries and possible.

To be the background to this trip is Naplesa living and contradictory city, capable of embracing sacred and profane, misery and hope, pain and rebirth.

And here the places crossed by the story become narration themselves. In fact, they do not represent simple scenography, but emotional spaces, mirrors of the transformation of the protagonists.

But, what are the issues addressed by the documentary?

The embrace that shelters – forgive a crime develops an emotional, personal and human investigation on the pain and radical choice of forgiveness, but also analyzes a Alternative model of justicethe reparative one, which in this story finds one of its most concrete and bright examples.

THE'Hug between Antonio and Lucia In fact, it returns all the truth and complexity of a gesture that goes beyond reconciliation. AND A meeting that breaks the classic categories of guilt and punishment And it offers the possibility of imagining repair paths even where they seemed unthinkable.

“The embrace that repairs – forgive a crime”: the testimonies

Next to the two protagonists, the documentary collects the reflections of some of the most authoritative figures of the Italian legal and social landscape.

Among them the Professor Adolfo Ceretticriminologist and among the greatest experts in reparative justice, who proposes a lucid and passionate reading of the transformative value of this experience:

“The idea that there may be a dialogue between the victim and the executioner is contraintumental and this thing can only scandalize. READATIVE JUDIA REPLACES the conflicting, of course only if they want it”.

To his words are added those of Gianluca GuidaDirector of the Nisida criminal criminal institute, Don Luigi Ciottifounder of FreeAnd Don Claudio Burgiofounder of the community Kayroswhose voices intertwine with the narration to give depth and context to the path of Antonio, a minor at the time of the crime, today father and worker in a cooperative that manages a good confiscated from the Camorra, entitled precisely to the memory of Gaetano Montanino.

hatred leaves room for forgiveness

In a time when exemplary and punitive justice often invoke, The embrace that shelters – forgive a crime Instead, asks a different and more radical question: can justice become repair? What happens when a victim chooses not to hate?

Here, the documentary does not offer simple answers, but opens spaces for reflection – collective and personal – on the value of recognition, on the weight of responsibility and on the possibility of looking at the other with new eyes, offering the spectator new points of view.