I couldn't tell you whether Davigo was really Davigo or a form of artificial intelligence wearing Davigo's face, but certainly not even Torquemada at the table with Brutus and Robespierre would have revealed what Mani Pulite's former magistrate announced in response into Fedez's microphones the question: “Was the suicide of a great entrepreneur like Gardini a little sad for you?” “Of course I'm sorry,” Davigo admitted with a touch of magnanimity, before quickly adding: “First of all, the fact that someone decides means “To commit suicide, to lose him as a possible source of information.” A reflection that radiates the same warmth as a mint popsicle eaten in an igloo, and that might even sound surprisingly allusive: In those years, it was just the critics of Mani Pulite, who claimed that with Gardini's suicide a witness was lost who could point out that former communists were among the beneficiaries of Enimont's famous bribes.
However, the unfounded cynicism of these words drowns out all other considerations and leads us to the question: Is he really thinking them, or did they design him that way? To be clear, I don't doubt that Davigo is the only reader of Les Misérables who favors Inspector Javert over Jean Valjean, but I get the impression that he also fell a little in love with the character of the tough and the pure . And that, as is sometimes the case with overly celebrated actors, he can't get out of the role.
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