Beppe Grillo dusts off the tradition of end-of-year counter-messages and, after a long silence – interspersed with very thematic and not very political posts – reappears on social media. He does so, perhaps, precisely to justify his silence, but also to launch a very harsh criticism of politics made up of “zombies” and of justice “used like a club”.
What pervades the entire post, published on Facebook a few hours before President Sergio Mattarella’s speech to Italians, is a feeling of profound bitterness. «At this time of the year everyone pretends to draw a line», but «I don’t see this line, instead I see an accumulation of wasted words, used like confetti – writes the founder of the M5s -. I see a country that has become accustomed to everything, to injustice that becomes a procedure” and “to pain that becomes an administrative practice”. Then the accusation, directed at that “politics” that “continues to act” in which “the acronyms, the symbols, the agreements change, and the faces are always the same, which like zombies drag themselves with the escort between the buildings”.
A key passage that preludes what seems to be an assessment of his recent experience with the 5 stars: «I talked a lot, I shouted, laughed and insisted. I have said uncomfortable things when it was inappropriate to say them and unpopular things when perhaps it was better to stay silent, but then I remained silent because there comes a point where words risk becoming part of the noise.” No reference to Giuseppe Conte’s new Movement, nor to the legal battle for the symbol. No direct reference even to the personal story of his son Ciro, convicted together with three other defendants for alleged gang rape against two young women.
The guarantor doesn’t skimp on hits left and right, but with very different tones than usual. Almost nothing remains of the roar and bravado of a decade ago. The sentences given to his audience are more than intimate: they dig deep with the aim of going further. «Justice is that “solemn” word waved by everyone like a flag and used like a club – writes Grillo -. There are things that don’t make it into the end-of-year budgets, there are wounds that don’t make the news and change the way we look at the world, they teach that the truth follows tortuous paths and that justice often proceeds with times and logics far from what really appears right.” 2025 was «a year of subtraction that took away more than it gave». «I feel in a state in which there is no boredom, sadness, or physical and moral pain», he says of himself. To then comment: «My time has not yet come, I am posthumous».