The day of truth for the Cartabia reform
The Scratches of Damato
The last mile of the prison path of death row inmates in the United States at least once was green, from the color of the floor that inspired a famous film in 1999. The last mile of the path of the short prescription introduced in 2019 by the first government of Giuseppe Conte, and in force since January 1st of last year, by virtue of which the trials on appeal and in the Supreme Court could last indefinitely, would deserve the color in the mood of Prime Minister Mario Draghi: so black that from Palazzo Chigi there were phone calls of intolerance to all the leaders, party experts and so on, invited to do away with the so-called upside game. By virtue of which for each concession that a party obtains there is another, retaliatory or compensatory, claimed by the neighbor or the opposite at the table, real or metaphorical, of the majority.
Several days have passed since the Council of Ministers unanimously passed the changes to the reform of the criminal trial to establish the maximum duration of the appeals at three years and that of the passages in the Cassation at eighteen months, under penalty of the so-called "inadmissibility" devised by the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia, the more the list of exceptional crimes has grown, let's call them that: those that, due to their gravity, should be exempted from being unlawful, and left hanging for life around the neck of the accused.
The last one invoked at the end of this list is the crime of rape, claimed by the Northern League senator Giulia Bongiorno. Who only by chance, for heaven's sake, defends the young woman who denounced Ciro Grillo, the son of the founder, elevated and so on from the 5 Star Movement, for sexual violence. That in the negotiations on the reform – or "schiforma", as they call it in the Fatto Quotidiano – of the very short prescription by Adolfo Bonafede, the former Grillino Minister of Justice, is represented by Giuseppe Conte in the very unique capacity of potential president of the "community", as he calls the formation that sent him three years ago to Palazzo Chigi as a non-member, which he still is today.
Conte must also have received a call from his former offices as Prime Minister, perhaps from Draghi himself, to close a negotiation that was to last a few days, if not a few hours after that session of the Council of Ministers, and concern "Technical adjustments", no more, to the so-called system of the reform of the criminal process under consideration by the Chamber.
At the same time, however, pressures of opposite sign arrived at Conte, among which those of the Fatto Quotidiano stand out at least for the liveliness of expressions. Which Stefano Folli in Repubblica usually indicates as "the unofficial newspaper" of the former Prime Minister. Newspaper or even a bit of the Bible, since it does not just represent thoughts, moods and so on, but often anticipates them or attributes them to the person concerned? Today, for example, "day of truth", according to the manifesto, for the reform of the criminal trial and its surroundings, Il Fatto Quotidiano in a front page headline dismissed the concessions snatched in the negotiations by Conte as "crumbs", including there is also the exclusion of the so-called inadmissibility of terrorist and mafia crimes, including the evanescent one of “outside competition”. “Delenda Cartabia”, is – textual, in part of the title of the editorial – the order, the directive, the expectation of the director in person of the Fact , Marco Travaglio.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/il-giorno-della-verita-per-la-riforma-cartabia/ on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:56:28 +0000.