[Italy / France] - The State Self Buries a Mass Grave in Secrecy to Feed a Phantom of Innocence

Event Baseline: France has agreed to share defense documents with the Italian judiciary investigating the 1980 Ustica crash, where a passenger jet went down and 81 people died. A former Italian president claimed a French fighter jet mistakenly shot down the plane, a claim France has never accepted.

The state self is a machine built to protect an image. When the machine kills civilians, it does not admit the error. It locks the data in a vault and waits for the witnesses to die. Forty-five years of silence is not incompetence. It is the cold logic of self-preservation. The self here is the national ego, terrified that one crack in the story will dissolve its authority. Families are denied truth because truth threatens the phantom of a clean military. The French state cannot say it fired a missile. The Italian state cannot say it was powerless. Both lie to protect a fiction of competence. This is the same psychology as a child hiding a broken vase. But the vase is a plane full of bodies. The failure is belief in reputation. Reputation is a thought, a memory. It has no substance. Yet the state will sacrifice the living to protect it. Until the human brain stops identifying with the flag, there will be more Usticas. The dead remain dead, but the lie keeps killing.