The Apostolic case unmasked by Salvini

6 October 20237 months ago babelfish

Facts and comments on the Apostolic case. Paola Sacchi's note

Anastasio Carrà, Northern League member of Catania, Matteo Salvini's first mayor in Sicily in Motta Sant'Anastasia, is not a politician well known on television screens. At least until yesterday, when it was he himself who confirmed, recognizing her, that it was Judge Iolanda Apostolico. The magistrate, who effectively disregarded the Cutro decree on migrants, is the woman portrayed in the video posted yesterday morning by Matteo Salvini, saying that he seemed to recognize "familiar faces" among the demonstrators who were protesting for them to be allowed to disembark on 25 August 2018 the migrants of the "Diciotti" ship.

“It's her”, confirms deputy Carrà, a staunch supporter of guarantees, who, not surprisingly, in January last year was chosen by the same leader of the League, deputy prime minister, minister of Infrastructure and Transport, to be part of the Northern League delegation, also composed by the deputy vice-president of the League in the Senate, Antonino Germanà, in Hammamet on the occasion of the anniversary of Bettino Craxi's death in Tunisia. The very harsh words on the Craxi case, together with those of Silvio Berlusconi – who sent the Italian parliamentary delegation which has always been in the front row in the anniversaries in Hammamet – of the two exponents of the League against the political use of justice by sectors of the judiciary and of the post-communist left, were then sealed by a tribute from Salvini himself to the socialist statesman. The two Northern League members remained in Hammamet, alongside Stefania Craxi, senator of FI and president of the Foreign and Defense commission, with the other delegations, including Ettore Rosato then for Renzian IV, for the two days in memory of the former prime minister and leader of the PSI.

Carrà's intervention now in the new heated episode of the thirty-year clash between politics and the so-called red robes seems like a circle that closes on the need for sectors of the judiciary to no longer engage in politics. Matteo Renzi himself says it, leader of IV and former prime minister, who somewhat surprisingly defends the same Salvini whom he sent to trial with the entire left and the Five Star Movement on the Open Arms case, of which there will be a new hearing today, with the presence of the same deputy prime minister, minister and Northern League leader. Renzi, while saying he is against Salvini's policies on immigration, finds it "scandalous that a magistrate goes into the streets, especially in the midst of people shouting shameful slogans against the police". Conclusion of the leader of IV: "If you want to be a magistrate, don't do politics".

It was 9.46 yesterday morning when Salvini posted the sensational video on X. He wrote: “25 August 2018, Catania, I was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. The far left demonstrates to demand the disembarkation of immigrants from the Diciotti ship: the crowd shouts "murderers" and "animals" in the faces of the police. I seem to see some familiar faces….".

Tension is reignited after the judge's decision which effectively disregarded the Cutro decree for some migrants not held in the CPR. A decision against which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had already strongly protested. And on which the other deputy prime minister, foreign minister and leader of FI, Antonio Tajani, also intervenes, stating that the sentence does not seem "convincing" to him and that if the judge had been there by chance "she would have had to leave the demonstration" . Then, a warning from Tajani: "The magistrates must not wage war on the government". The ANM replies that "privacy life cannot be screened". But League sources reply: "What is happening is not a worrying screening of judges and their private lives as the ANM claims: we are faced with a public demonstration at the port of Catania and public posts of insults against Minister Matteo Salvini" . From Via Bellerio they relaunch: "Rather, the 58 million and 851 thousand Italians who can be judged by robes whose impartiality and impartiality are seriously compromised by the Apostolic case must be worried."

Tension skyrocketing. And the memory, for the news of the time, no less sensational than the summer following that of 2018, in the August 15th of 2019 when for the first time the usual point on the state of security of the Interior Ministry of 15 August was contested by the social centres. Salvini, then still Minister of the Interior, decided to go to the South, to Campania, to Castelvolturno, in complicated lands. He was hit with water canisters. Silence, however, then in the face of the serious protest, which did not concern a politician but the Viminale institution, by the center-left in opposition to the Conte 1 government. Who knows now if the sensational video posted by Salvini will stir the waters also in the center-left for a real justice reform, for which the League and the Radicals had also held a referendum. And therefore whether Renzi's words will have a sequel.

This morning, before leaving for Palermo, where he is expected in the Ucciardone bunker courtroom for the Open Arms trial, Salvini commented on social media: “What is emerging is worrying and disconcerting. The judge who freed multiple illegal immigrants and challenges the government's rules on immigration has shared insults against me in the past and participated – with his partner – in far-left demonstrations in favor of immigrants during which the police were insulted to the cries of murderers and animals." He concludes: “It is a source of profound embarrassment for all institutions. I count on everyone's collaboration so that common sense and balance prevail."

It sounds like an invitation to the bodies responsible for justice, starting with the CSM, of which the Head of State is president, to examine his complaint, complete with video, on the incandescent new episode of the relationship between politics and sectors of the judiciary .

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-caso-apostolico-smascherato-da-salvini/ on Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:47:30 +0000.