How the magistrates scream against Crosetto
The reaction of the magistrates to Crosetto's interview, but the Minister of Defense accepts the challenge of reporting to Parliament. Damato's Scratches
Punctual like the legendary Swiss clock or train, the president of the national association of magistrates Giuseppe Santalucia, with that name of the saint who protects the eyes, practically accused the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto of forgery – "fake news" – for having sniffed and reported it smells of "judicial opposition" in an interview with Corriere della Sera . As Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had already done in August, commenting on an investigation against the Undersecretary of Justice, and her party colleague, Andrea Delmastro. Even then, as now, it was a "clash", as the Corriere headlines today, or "robes in revolt", according to La Stampa .
SANTALUCIA'S REACTION TO CROSETTO'S INTERVIEW
The mechanism of the reaction of Santalucia, of its union and of the supporting parties and newspapers, is explained in the Giornale by someone who knows the subject and the environment well, so to speak. It is Luca Palamara, president of that union for four years between 2008 and 2012, who wrote: "Whenever the left does not govern the ANM and whoever presides over it ends up suffering pressure from those who , internally, require drastic and intransigent positions towards those who dare to question the impartiality of the judiciary. In short, the president of the ANM is asked to carry out an exercise in "celodurismo" so that the ANM is not overtaken on the left by the currents of reference". Which would then paradoxically, in our case, be a self-overpass, since Santalucia – the inconvenient Palamara always recalled – is an exponent of the judicial left and former head of the legislative office of the Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando”, of the Democratic Party. Natural, therefore, is his “head-down attack”, speaking to the central steering committee of the robes association, against “the public position expressed by Crosetto.
CROSETTO WILL REPORT IN PARLIAMENT
The Defense Minister, who also has a physique that is armor in itself, did not allow himself to be intimidated by the reactions, including the peremptory request from the Democratic Party and the 5 Star Movement to report to Parliament. Precisely where Crosetto said he was ready to present himself. And it will be interesting to listen to him not only on the precedents he complained about of judicial opposition "from 1994 to today" but also, and more specifically, on the "meetings – he told the Corriere – of a current of the judiciary in which they talk about how " stop – quotes within quotes – the anti-democratic drift to which Meloni is leading us." Here we are dealing, I repeat, with "meetings", not with sporadic declarations by this or that magistrate, or interceptions of e-mails, or other devilry between two, three or more. And it wasn't the minister of cultural heritage or food sovereignty, or of sport dealing – lucky him – in these hours with the splendid Italian reconquest of the Davis tennis cup, who spoke about it, but of the Defence, usually provided with news as confidential as reliable.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/intervista-crosetto-reazione-magistrati/ on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:11:26 +0000.