Denis Verdini, il Fatto Quotidiano and the manettari
"The news of the day for me is the voluntary establishment of former Senator Denis Verdini in the Roman prison of Rebibbia after the final sentence of 6 and a half years in the Supreme Court for the collapse of the Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino, which he chaired for twenty years"
In spite of Covid, the eternally penultimate measures ordered by the government to deal with it and even the upcoming American election results, the news of the day for me is the voluntary constitution of former Senator Denis Verdini in the Rebibbia Roman prison after the final sentence of 6 years and a half in the Supreme Court for the collapse of the Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino, which he chaired for twenty years.
There are more years in which the story, which began in 2010 with an inspection by the Bank of Italy, has developed than those of the sentence finally inflicted on the accused. And even more than the time he, sixty-nine, is destined to physically spend in prison, before he reaches the age of 70 he can try to access alternative measures.
This is already an at least anomalous aspect of the former senator's adventure, who passed from republican origins, understood as a party, the one that was of Ugo La Malfa and Giovanni Spadolini, to the Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi, until he became its lieutenant, and to a formation almost his own, called Ala and suspected, rightly or wrongly, of supporting Matteo Renzi in the golden years, so to speak, or at least in silver.
But the Italian justice system is full of anomalies, indeed crowded. That the more well-known, important, decisive and political the accused is in his spotlight, the more special and surprising he becomes, as if everything depended more on the context than on anything else. Really surprising, if on the eve of the final verdict the most informed newspaper of the Italian trials, even more than a Criminal Record, with a preference for the positions of the prosecution, assumed on the front page that the accused could "break it down again". Naturally I refer to the Fatto Quotidiano founded by Antonio Padellaro when he left the Unit and directed for some time by Marco Travaglio , disconsolate – from his point of view – for the position taken in the Cassation by the prosecution, that is, by the Attorney General, not at all convinced of guilt , at least in full, by Verdini. For which he had therefore proposed a new appeal process, after the one that had closed, among other things, with the accused in tears who swore that he had really given everything to his bankrupt bank, not at all managed as the "ATM personnel "contested from the first moment after the accusation.
For once, think about it, Il Fatto was displaced not only by the Attorney General of the Cassation but then also by the judges, who somehow paradoxically challenged the requests and took the place of accusation. And the next day he was able to triumphantly over the sentence, adding the “wickedness” of the day of the son who accompanied his father to prison, instead of the “preferable” and potential son-in-law, which is Matteo Salvini.
All legitimate, for heaven's sake. It is not the first time this has happened and it will not be – I think – even the last. But precisely for this reason, in the judicial climate heated by politics, I do not understand the obstinacy with which the handcuffs distrust judges to such an extent that they are horrified at the idea that their careers are separated from those of prosecutors, believing that this would take away strength. and autonomy to the latter, to the full advantage of the accused. Which is not by chance divided by the now fortunately ex magistrate Pier Camillo Davigo between those who unfortunately manage to get away with acquittal, and those who deservedly do not make it.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/denis-verdini-il-fatto-quotidiano-e-i-manettari/ on Wed, 04 Nov 2020 06:10:56 +0000.