Prosecutor Gratteri in Paola: "Fare pulizia tra i magistrati. And also among journalists"
Gratteri discusses justice and information in Paola starting from the memory of Enzo Lo Giudice, Craxi's lawyer in “Clean Hands”. «I am Minister of Justice? Those who love me say that I was saved". Belpietro: «Magistrates who make mistakes should be suspended.
PAOLA «Among some lawyers and some clients the width of the desk has reduced. Allow this, especially in the criminal field, it is very dangerous. But it is dangerous not so much for the relationships created with clients but with fellow lawyers. Frankly, there are too many of them, and there are also too many cases that should not be in court". Nicola Gratteri in the cloister of Sant'Agostino, to Paola, thus answers journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi's first question. The lawyers Marcello Manna and Francesco Scrivano nod. The humidity of a strong summer storm mixes with the human warmth of an audience that sits down to commemorate one of the greatest lawyers in republican history: Enzo Lo Giudice. «I always say this to young people – continues the magistrate – don't look for shortcuts, they are not needed, make sure that the desk has a wide margin with your clients". And the desk of Enzo Lo Giudice it was wide. Craxi's lawyer in the “Mani Pulite” trial, communist formation, but above all a pure guaranteeist as his first practitioner recalls, now a lawyer, Francesco Scrivano. Defending the socialist leader in the judicial tornado set up by the "Clean Hands" pool of the three magistrates Davigo-Di Pietro-Colombo, for Lo Giudice it also meant dealing with the first real episode in Italy of what is today defined “media trial”. Since then everything changed. Even a notice of guarantee turned into a hearing in the newspaper columns. «The directors of the most important Italian newspapers – says Scrivano – called each other to agree on the title to be given the following day». Read More
Migrants, the revelations of a deep throat: "Mai salvato gente in pericolo, It's a first-come, first-served business"
The shocking revelation to the National Newspaper by a security officer, who wishes to remain anonymous, employed on a Save the Children ship: “The relationships between smugglers and many organizations are evident”
“I saw few migrants in danger of their lives, we don't have Never saved anyone who was dying at sea: it seemed more of a race to see who could get there first“. The interview given to has the effects of a bomb National newspaper Qn by a security officer employed on Vos Hestia, una nave di Save the Children, who wishes to remain anonymous. “Once we took a boat with people in good conditions - he says. – Ten minutes from the Libyan coast, not on the high seas. The relationships between smugglers and many organizations are evident. None of the migrants care, it's a business“.
“For me a problem of conscience”“Perhaps some NGOs are truly animated by a humanitarian spirit. But this talk of going to the Libyan coast is neither in heaven nor on earth. Out of thousands of people rescued perhaps only the 20-25% he deserved help“, continues the anonymous witness in the shock interview a Qn. “We loaded young North Africans who had been expelled from Italy. But I say, who we brought to Italy? We did not bring the desperate Syrians or those from Mali fleeing from hunger. For me it was personally also a problem of conscience“.
But “State Secret” can mean “Bribes”? (Question to the Prosecutor's Office)
Of Maurizio Blondet
Since the Benettons do not supply the State with missiles, advanced armaments, radar – because the motorway concessions were covered by state secrecy? It's a question I would like to ask, as a poor citizen, to judges, prosecutors: what other reason can they imagine for this state secret! – if not hidden exchanges and benefits between the politicians who granted them, and those who enjoy the concession of a very profitable monopoly? I ask sincerely: because I can't imagine anything else. Maybe judges and prosecutors, but yes. They have a reason to find this secret very normal. And for this reason they have not moved despite the fact that the Transport Authority has also repeatedly underlined the need to make these contracts public, that concern a public service and public power. And although in any other country the Ministry of Transport makes the contracts and documents governing the relationship between the State and the managers of the motorway networks available for consultation, as - after all - of any public service granted under concession.
Bribes can be assumed? Under-the-table payments in any form to the concessionaire government party? This is asked naively, given the enormous profits that the company in question derives from the management of the monopoly: almost the 26 percent of turnover net profit, you seem to 1,042 billion . And a gross operating margin that makes the economic journalist Fabio Dragoni say the following dirty joke: “An EBITDA of almost 68% on turnover like that of #Highways credo can only be overcome by drug trafficking". And why Mario Giordano calls them “Vultures”?
Morandi Bridge, from 'absolute stability' to 'intense degradation'
REPORT
…So Autostrade changed to soli 2 years the judgment in the official reports
In the 2009 Motorways for Italy “has repeatedly provided guarantees” about the “presumed old age” of the structure, That “it just needs, like all works of a certain importance, of constant ordinary maintenance”. In the 2011 the work is described, Instead, come “subjected to enormous stress” and for this reason “subject to continuous maintenance for years”. The evolution in two subsequent reports from the company that has the concession for the viaduct
Of Marco Pasciuti
An infrastructure characterized in 2009 and "absolute safetye stability“, on which the company "has repeatedly provided guarantees". That's just two years later, In the 2011, is described as being afflicted with “intense degradation” and has therefore been “the subject of a for years continuous maintenance“. It's the way in alone 24 months the judgment of Motorways for Italy on the Morandi bridge, collapsed yesterday in Genoa causing the death of at least 37 people.
The theme is that of the construction of Western Gronda, new motorway section capable of guaranteeing the doubling of the existing A10 in the section crossing the municipality of Genoa, from Val Polcevera to the town of Vesima. A link road that is part of the project to improve the traffic of the capital, intended for projects Apsi – which has the A10 motorway under concession, she takes care of its maintenance and has come under fire in the hours following the tragedy – to “improve traffic conditions on the existing network”, “support economic growth”, “improve the road safety” and “offer an alternative to the only Ligurian motorway axis”. A topic that triggers a bitter political confrontation, which merged nine years ago into a participatory democracy project: il public debate held in the capital between February 1st and 30 April 2009. Read More
L'ira del web contro Benetton e Toscani: "Metterete una maglietta rossa per le vittime di Genova?"
Reporting of G.B.
The Benetton family, which through Atlantia controls Autostrade per l'Italia, in the sights of social media. Toscani's do-gooder campaigns are also under attack
Of Sergio Rame
From pain to anger. The transition is immediate. Sui social network, and especially on Twitter, Anger is being vented at this time against the Benetton family.
Media lynching is, Indeed, started soon after the first statements by ministers Luigi Di Maio, Matteo Salvini and Danilo Toninelli against the company Motorways for Italy that, through Atlantia, it is in fact controlled by the Benettons. “Now you will wear a red shirt for the victims of Genoa?”, writes a challenging user Oliviero Toscani That last 7 July had demonstrated against government policies of closing the ports to boats loaded with illegal immigrants.
Several hundred tweets. One after the other. All popped up a few hours later the dramatic collapse of Morandi bridge on the A10 motorway. Social networks are unleashing themselves against the Benettons by posting, just as the death toll increases hour by hour, several shots that portray a smiling and complete family group. In other posts, a photomontage was published in which Toscani is seen holding a photograph of the collapsed bridge in his hand. “Now you will wear a red shirt for the victims of Genoa?”, a user writes to him referring to the demonstration of 7 last July in support of illegal immigrants who land on the Italian coasts. Read More
Genova: Morandi Bridge
THE INVESTIGATION
Of Roberto Pecchioli
We didn't want to believe it. The collapse of the Morandi Bridge, that we Genoese, with a touch of colonized provincialism we called it the Brooklyn Bridge, It's a shocking tragedy, for its load of victims, pain, destruction and the terrible consequences that will drag on for years. This is not the time for jackals, but help, of condolence, of help, of collaboration. However, one cannot remain silent, keep a lid on anger over another sinisterly Italian tragedy: a work of that importance cannot collapse after just one day 50 years. For the writer there is something personal, almost intimately in the pain of these hours. Children, we participated in 1967 at the inauguration of the bridge with all the school groups of Genoa. Equipped with a tricolor flag, stationed in front of the stage, we followed the ceremony, we saw with the wonder of age the president of the republic Giuseppe Saragat surrounded by men in full uniform and the imposing figure of the great cardinal Siri, historic archbishop of the city.
We have crossed that very long bridge thousands of times, seventy meters above the valley of the Polcevera stream full of council houses and industrial warehouses of the former Superba, every day for decades we saw and touched it on our way to work. It's no longer there and it's someone's fault. They talk about lightning, of an intense storm and structural failure. Let's wait to make judgements, but on the morning of the eve of the August bank holiday it just rained. No floods, from the years 70 we remember at least six, devastating, in the city of Genoa. We don't know how many lightning strikes have struck engineer Morandi's artifact in half a century (few knew that the work was named after him), nor how much rain has wetted the imposing structures since then. We don't accept, we will never recognize the hasty justification of these hours as valid. It will be Bar Sport indifference, but we know that Roman bridges have been standing for two millennia, and we don't believe in the inability of designers. But, in recent decades there have been many collapses, like tragedies due to neglect, to ignorance, to widespread corruption. Read More
Saviano sentenced (again) for Gomorrah
He will have to compensate a defamed entrepreneur
RECIPIENT
The writer and Mondadori did not correct a passage on which the judge had already expressed his opinion
Roberto Saviano and Mondadori Libri were sentenced to jointly pay 15 thousand euros to an entrepreneur, already compensated with 30 thousand euros four years ago due to a sentence that became final. This is because the writer did not rectify the passage in the book “Gomorrah” in which Vincenzo Boccolato, with no criminal record and resident abroad, he is described as a member of a Camorra clan. The lawyers Alessandro Santoro made this known, Sandra Salvigni and Daniela Mirabile, lawyers of Boccolato, who explain that the provision, filed three days ago, it was signed by the judge of the first civil section of Milan Angelo Claudio Ricciardi.
In summary, Saviano and the publishing house decided to continue reprinting the same edition without removing the defamatory expressions sanctioned in the first conviction. Circumstance that the judge assessed as “new defamatory offence”.
https://www.iltempo.it/cronache/2018/08/11/news/roberto-saviano-condannato-diffamazione-gomorra-condanna-vincenzo-boccolato-imprenditore-clan-camorra-1081722/ Read More
TGVerona.it – Bacciga fascist salute, two exposed to the Prosecutor's Office
While the Counselor Avv. Andrea Bacciga, very worried, already asks for quality drinks, no oranges and no time wasters for the future “gabbio”, from his deckchair in the middle of the beach… (n.d.r.)
14/08/2018 09:24
They were introduced two reported to the Verona prosecutor's office against the majority councilor Andrea Bacciga who last 26 July in the chamber he addressed some members of the Non una di Meno movement, raising his right arm outstretched, giving rise to a fascist demonstration. The gesture, repeated in the classroom, it was seen by several people: opposition and majority municipal councilors, representatives of the citizens and naturally by the exponents of the movement Not one less, present in the chamber that day because the discussion of two motions proposed by two councilors of the Northern League aimed at giving ample space to Catholic associations to oppose free abortion and to systematize the "burial of unborn children" program, even without the consent of the woman involved and at the expense of public health.
Some activists of Non Una di Meno, movement that at a national level had decided to oppose the approval of the two motions through pressure on social networks, they had decided that day to put on a scene, as has already happened in many other cities and countries around the world, a peaceful protest, whose message was conveyed by clothing. That is, they wore clothes similar to those of the serie tv The Handmaid’s Tale, that is, red tunics and cloaks and white headdresses. In the book and in the series, women dressed in this way live as sexual slaves and living incubators.
Following the events that occurred during the session of 26 July 2018 councilor Bacciga claimed responsibility for his gesture in a tweet in which (following the outcry resulting from his gesture and the public denunciation of Non Una di Meno which asked for his immediate resignation and which anticipated that he would take legal action) quoted Benito Mussolini: “If you acquit me you do me a favor, if you condemn me you do me an honor”.
On his Facebook page, councilor Bacciga also published the mobile phone numbers of two women belonging to the Non Una di Meno movement, numbers still visible as well the sexist and denigrating comments towards them.
In the two complaints presented to the prosecutor's office by the lawyer Federica Panizzo it is believed that the conduct of the City Councilor Andrea Bacciga constitutes the crime referred to in the art. 5 of law no. 645 of the 1952 (the so-called Scelba law). Bacciga, showing off the Roman salute, staged a demonstration of the dissolved fascist party, behavior which is even more serious given that it took place within the City Council chamber and that it was done by a person who was democratically elected according to the rules of the Republic of the Italian State and its Constitution.
The first complaint was presented by Non Una di Meno, the second will be presented in a few days by dozens of citizens, some and some of which belong to associations that have known, by the media, what happened in the City Council meeting of 26 July.
Among the associations there are, for now: Pink Club, planet Milk Verona – LGBT Pianeta Center A.P.S., the Orma trade union association, the Circle of the Rose, l’ANED (National association of former deportees to Nazi camps, Isoline and
Carlo Nordio: "Se il Pm sbaglia, it should be sanctioned like this"
Reporting of Nicola Pasqualato
Of Benedetto Lattanzi e Valentino Maimone
Carlo Nordio was one of the most respected and prominent investigating magistrates of the last three decades in Italy. Owner of investigations that are as burning as they are fundamental (from the Red Brigades to kidnappings, from the Venetian Tangentopoli to the Mose), he was deputy prosecutor in Venice. His guaranteeist and counter-current positions on the role of the public prosecutor have often earned him praise. We had the opportunity to interview him during "Innocents in handcuffs", the Day dedicated to the victims of judicial errors organized with the Radical Party. What emerged was a long and interesting overview of some of the most delicate aspects of the role of the magistrate in current justice, including judicial errors. This time we publish the part dedicated to the civil liability of the magistrate. Read More