If these are investigative reportsAgainst journalism that has become a mere chronicle of other people’s investigations: whether by a public prosecutor’s office or the intelligence servicesOpaque sources, ambiguous witnesses, impossible to verify. Whilst the dissection of clues, wiretaps and images erodes any remaining trust in the justice system. A first-hand accountbyRosaria Capacchione28 SEP 26
The decisionFormer public prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano’s withdrawal from the Milan mayoral election: “Too many attacks and falsehoods”The former magistrate has decided not to stand as a candidate for deputy mayor. As the city’s assistant public prosecutor, she coordinated the team which, in 2025, placed Mayor Sala on the list of persons under investigation as part of the major inquiry into town planning.byRedazione25 SEP 26
the caseIn the trial against Baiardo (and the memory of ‘Il Cav.’), the prosecutor and judges are trampling on the right to a defence.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.byErmes Antonucci25 SEP 26
the caseRiccardo Bossi, son of Umberto, has been arrested. He is to serve a sentence of 5 years and 9 months.The convictions of the eldest son of the Lega’s founder relate to events in 2011 and 2020 concerning the offences of embezzlement, fraud and the unauthorised receipt of the citizen’s income.24 SEP 26
The decisionFormer Ilva: the EU Court’s ruling – no energy subsidies for a state-aided companyThe Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that “a company in difficulty cannot benefit from the concessions provided for companies with high electricity or gas consumption”.byRedazione24 SEP 26
After the trialsLawyer Todarello explains the absurd construction deadlock caused by the investigations“The ruling on ‘Torre Milano’ is very clear-cut; you don’t even have to read too much into it,” the lawyer tells Il Foglio: the judge has ruled in favour of the developers on every point. She has upheld all their argumentsbyFabio Massa24 SEP 26
the caseThe latest blunder by the Florence public prosecutors: the Graviano transcripts have not been filedIn 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 GravianobyErmes Antonucci22 SEP 26
THE PROSECUTOR IN THE COURTYARDThe mother of all investigations into Milan’s urban planning. An instructive storyIt all began with the “giardino nascosto” in Piazza Aspromonte, the first case from which the allegations – later repeated in the Milanese investigations – arose. Now the investigating magistrate’s decision is due. But as far as Torre Stresa is concerned, the judges have already dismissed the prosecution’s casebyMaurizio Crippa21 SEP 26
the editor’s editorialRanucci’s epiphany on the path to the rule of lawFrom the ‘Report’ model to the ‘Lavitola’ model. The champion of moralism, whose own story has served as a lesson in moralising, teaches us that evidence is one thing, whilst suspicions and theories are quite another. Notes for a set of ten commandments against the culture of media and judicial lynchingbyClaudio Cerasa21 SEP 26
EDITORIALSThe fabricated scandal over magistrates’ examsThe CSM has gutted the government’s regulation and come up with tests that will serve no purpose. With the personality tests – deemed to have poor predictive value – ruled out, the focus has shifted to cognitive abilities, reasoning, problem-solving and adapting to new situationsbyRedazione17 SEP 26