Ermes Antonucci

Reliable sources within the Ministry of Justice have told Il Foglio that the government’s intention is quite different from that expressed by Meloni on Sunday, when she announced that she did not wish to give the go-ahead to the Prime Ministerial Decree (DPCM) that would unlock pay rises and back pay for magistrates

Having already been definitively convicted of breaching official secrecy in December 2024, the Court of Cassation has now made Davigo’s conviction final in respect of the charges that had been referred back for a new appeal hearing. The former public prosecutor has been given a (suspended) sentence of one year and three months.

The local executive committee has spoken out in solidarity with Santi Bologna, the investigating magistrate from Nissa, expressing the hope “that the debate on matters of public interest will take place without fuelling mistrust towards the judiciary”. A slap in the face for the M5S senator

Since March, after coming out in favour of the ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum on the justice system, the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies has been the victim of an exceptionally severe and unusual media witch-hunt: he is not under investigation, but his reputation is being destroyed on the basis of criminally irrelevant documents leaked from an investigation conducted by Roman public prosecutors and an old Milanese inquiry

Members of the High Council of the Judiciary (CSM) have called for an investigation to be launched to protect Santi Bologna, the investigating magistrate in Caltanissetta, who has been attacked by the former public prosecutor, now a senator for the Five Star Movement. But what is particularly telling is the silence of the National Magistrates’ Association, which has always been at the forefront when a magistrate is attacked by politicians. President Tango is keeping a low profile and remaining silent.

The investigating magistrate in Caltanissetta not only denounced Scarpinato’s ‘misleading tactics’, but also made harsh criticisms of the former Rome public prosecutor, who is alleged to have been responsible for a series of irregularities in the mafia-procurement investigation, as well as behaviour that was highly questionable in terms of appropriateness

The Italian judiciary has gone to great lengths to reach a verdict, bending the rules of the trial in order to bring it to a conclusion. The result has been a thoroughly anomalous trial, featuring absent defendants (it is not known whether they are alive or dead), surreal testimony and a compromised right to a fair trial.

The trial of the former ice-cream vendor, accused of slander against Giletti, has been transformed by the public prosecutor’s office into yet another Mafia trial against Berlusconi and Dell’Utri, and is becoming increasingly mysterious from the point of view of procedural regularity.

In its eagerness to turn the defamation case against Baiardo into a mafia trial against Silvio Berlusconi and Marcello Dell’Utri, the Florence Public Prosecutor’s Office forgot to include in the case file the statements of the prosecution’s key witness: Giuseppe Graviano