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

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

The Rome Public Prosecutor sent a letter to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies an hour before the vote on the request for authorisation to access Delmastro’s chat records. The vote was postponed, amid criticism from the centre-right. Later that evening, the former undersecretary forwarded the messages to the public prosecutor’s office