A Grillo case in the La Russa house?
What happens between the government and the judiciary? Cases Delmastro and La Russa for the Meloni executive? Damato's Scratches
Even with the government "in trouble" – as a newspaper that is certainly not hostile like Il Giornale headlines – from the story of the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa who took the field to defend his son accused of a rape, which moreover took place at his home, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni did not she gives up on the offensive against the robes she suspects of flanking the opposition in the long electoral campaign for the European Parliament to be renewed in almost a year.
In the first instance, faced with the "forced" indictment in Rome of the Undersecretary of Justice and party colleague Andrea Delmastro for abuse of office superimposed on the Milanese investigations into the Minister of Tourism Daniela Santanchè, also a friend and party colleague, the president of the Consiglio took it out on a politicized "fringe of the judiciary". Yesterday that fringe became "an established power".
From Japan, where he is on an international mission, the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio backed up the premier. Earlier he defined the forced indictment of his undersecretary as "unreasonable", having already argued that there was no official secrecy in the Cospito affair which cost Delmastro the indictment. And then he announced the intention of reforming both the institution of compulsory indictment, ordered by the judge for preliminary investigations against the dismissal proposed by the public prosecution, and the guarantee notice practically notified to Santanchè in the press, such as the one at late Silvio Berlusconi in the autumn of 1994. Which helped to weaken him while Umberto Bossi was already preparing the crisis of his first government on pensions.
However, it must be said that even a guarantor newspaper like Il Foglio had to object, or rewrite, on Nordio's assists to the premier with a front page headline on "Via Arenula out of control". It is certainly not Altan's cartoon in Repubblica against Meloni who is determined to send "the red robes into the graves", but the signal is equally negative for the war on white weapons that is now taking shape between the government and the judiciary.
On the complication, again for the government, constituted by the already mentioned La Russa case – both son and father – which flooded the front pages of almost all the newspapers with headlines, photos and cartoons, let me at least express the unease it causes me to see the president of the Senate picked up by the electronic newspaper La Notizia with this headline: "A Grillo case in the La Russa house". A case, that of Grillo's son accused with friends after a stormy night of sex in Sardinia in 2019 and of the father who rose up against the investigators, is still open. Except for prescription perhaps favored, willingly or unwillingly, by the risk of a practically zeroed or resettable process for the replacement of a judge transferred to another location.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/la-russa-meloni-toghe/ on Sat, 08 Jul 2023 07:29:01 +0000.