Because (also) Nordio is wrong on the Delmastro-Donzelli case
The speech by Marco Mayer, former cyber adviser to the Ministry of the Interior with Marco Minniti and current lecturer at theLumsa Intelligence and National Security specialization course
For those familiar with prisons, defining the monitoring activity of the GOP departments of the penitentiary police as “mere administrative supervision” – as Justice Minister Carlo Nordio stated yesterday evening – makes you smile, but it is a bitter smile.
Gathering information on the bosses detained under the 41-bis regime is, in fact, a very delicate and dangerous job that produces precious information materials from which numerous investigations by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor take their cue (and on some occasions they feed the same agencies of the Republic's information system). How do you define "mere" administrative supervision" the collection of information on exchanges, behaviors, communications between the most powerful and irreducible mafia bosses, who from prison try to direct the criminal organizations they head, and when it is possible also forge links between organized crime and terrorism?
The documents in question, as they are intended for the Dap and therefore for administrative use, are not covered by investigative secrecy, but contain confidential and undisclosed information, also because they are likely to be investigated by the competent prosecutor. For this reason, with reference to their disclosure in the Cospito case , one can speak of politically irresponsible conduct, especially since the competent public prosecutor's office, if informed by the Dap (as it should have been and perhaps was), could have classified those documents, if they actually contain crime news. Otherwise you would find the papers on the Ministry's website…
Monitoring mafiosi pursuant to 41-bis notoriously has three reserved purposes:
- collection of information for the preventive police and in specific cases for the security services;
- report to the Public Prosecutor's Office behaviors that may prefigure news of a crime;
- understand the climate that reigns among the bosses for strategic analyzes on terrorism and the mafia.
Defining the monitoring activities of the GOP departments of the penitentiary police as "mere administrative supervision" clashes with the daily and thankless reality that is entrusted to them in prisons.
Otherwise there is the risk of an instrumental political use of the label "administrative supervision". Legal classifications do not belong to politics. Public opinion should be reminded that the role of minister is a political role and that it does not count as a jurisprudential definition and/or interpretation.
That said, the problem is that magic lilies (and circles) do not bring good luck to those sitting in Palazzo Chigi. Giorgia Meloni should reflect on how much the bad reputation of his famous magic lily (and circle) has hurt Matteo Renzi. The prince needs competent and loyal collaborators. I suggest Giorgia Meloni reread the wise words of Niccolò Machiavelli.
Machiavelli writes in the XXII chapter of The Prince : «The election of ministers is not of little importance to a prince: they are good or not, according to the prudence of the prince. And the first conjecture that one makes of a gentleman's brain is to see the men around him; and when they are sufficient and faithful, one can always consider him wise, because he knew how to recognize them as sufficient and keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise, one can always make a bad judgment of him; because the first mistake he makes is in this election».
There are no reasons to doubt Giovanni Donzelli's loyalty to Giorgia Meloni; but it is more than legitimate to doubt its "sufficiency", also because intelligent people admit it when they make a mistake and apologize for the mistake made.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/caso-cospito-donzelli-monitoraggio-carceri/ on Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:25:28 +0000.