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».
JUSTICE AND PRESS
PRESS NEWS AND CRIME NEWS
The news triangle has 3 vertices: judiciary, lawyers and judicial police. At the center are the reporters. «I say that in my category we need to clean up – says Gratteri –. Just as cleaning must be done in the press. There are reporters with a page and a half of convicted crimes who continue to practice the profession, as well as those who write to discredit me. I arranged 169 arrests, the Review releases them 5 and some newspapers say that the operation was a "flop"". Belpietro also shares the rules of engagement and cleanliness, but he puts the magistrates in front of a fait accompli: «If a magistrate makes an error in the exercise of his duties, it cannot simply be moved, must be suspended". Then he adds: «In other countries there is the rule of obstruction of justice, only here we can't find the right balance on what to tell during the investigation phase".
INTERCEPTIONS AND MINISTRY DDL
«I am justice minister?». Gratteri smiles at Belpietro's question: «We should ask Napolitano – he continues – even if those who love me always tell me that I saved myself». The chief prosecutor of the Catanzaro DDA then recalled how gods 250 articles written when they asked him for help with justice reform, only the remote trial passed. In the meantime, the government has put the wiretapping law in the freezer, so everything remains as it is. «As long as things remain like this – says Belpietro – I too will continue to publish, but if things were to change I won't make a big deal about it. We can safely continue doing our job".
ENZO JUDGES HIM, THE LAWYER Communist, lawyer, guarantor. The particular signs of Enzo Lo Giudice. Born in Paola, and from the Tyrrhenian city arrived in the circle of the great Italian lawyers, a club in which those who came from the province of Cosenza were not relegated to the corner. Thus the lawyer wrote speaking of “Mani Pulite”: «There was a major propaganda attack determined by the synergy between the press, television and handcuffs to demonize the enemy. Mind you, those who were under investigation were not seen as being investigated but as enemies after which there was public and widespread condemnation in the country even before the trial. This public condemnation became so strong that no judge would have had the courage to overturn it. Thus the circle was closed and the judicial fury was over.". (source Corrieredellacalabria.it)
Source: http://www.ecodellojonio.it/procuratore-gratteri-paola-pulizia-magistrati-anche-giornalisti/
