Ermes Antonucci

The general secretary of the Coisp police union: “In our country, there is a disconnect between the work of the police and the judicial system. Officers are constantly arresting individuals who commit crimes that pose a particular threat to society, but these individuals are released immediately afterwards.”

The former Mafia boss who pressed the button that triggered the Capaci massacre is due to appear as a witness at the court in Florence in the trial against Baiardo. However, he will be speaking on a subject regarding which his statements have already been deemed unreliable by the judges, namely the alleged links between Dell’Utri, Silvio Berlusconi and Cosa Nostra.

The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office investigated Lavitola as the instigator of the attack but then released him, allowing him 37 days to speak to anyone, including Ranucci, thereby compromising the evidence. Now the prosecutors have discovered that Lavitola has deleted many of the chats he exchanged with Ranucci, but to recover them, they have not seized the former Report presenter’s mobile phone.

Nicola Russo is a judge at the Naples Court of Appeal and, following the dissolution of the municipality of Castellammare di Stabia, has announced his intention to work on ‘a programme of collective renewal’. The first meeting is scheduled for 17 September, with Gratteri also due to attend. However, the town falls within the district in which he holds judicial office: is this acceptable to the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM)?

The man who committed two sexual assaults in Turin within the space of 40 minutes – first against an adult woman and then against a 13-year-old girl – is a non-EU national of no fixed abode. Following his arrest, the man was released by the investigating magistrate on astonishing grounds. Minister Nordio has sent in inspectors

The Lazio Regional Administrative Court and the Council of State have ordered Palazzo Chigi to set three-yearly adjustments to the salaries of senior judges in excess of the established amounts and to update the remuneration for consultants dating back to 2002. The cost is expected to exceed 200 million euros.

The former Cosa Nostra super-boss, deemed “completely untrustworthy” by the prosecutors, wants to circulate a document to the Italian public setting out his own “truths” (or, rather, hoaxes) about the Mafia massacres of 1992–1993 and the alleged links between Berlusconi, Dell’Utri and Cosa Nostra

The Chamber of Deputies has refused the Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office’s request to obtain the chat records between the former undersecretary and Caroccia, following a debate in which the government and the opposition put on an embarrassing spectacle. And there is controversy over the comments made by Bignami (FdI) regarding Scalfaro

With 636 auditors currently in post, there are as many as 104 senior positions: in effect, there is one president for every five auditors. This is a disproportionate number. The legislative decree approved by the Council of Ministers reduces this figure by 22 per cent