(by Marco Zacchera) While Italy is screwed up in the consequences of the coronavirus there is another emergency that is passing by, but as serious as the first: the crisis of our justice.
Little is said about it due to the silent silence of the media, a substantial indifference from the newscasts and little attention from the quaquaraquas who talk about the evils of the world, from Trump down, but always careful to never risk in person.
Italian justice is in a coma, the (accomplice) palace is absent, the Quirinale is silent, the boat goes to the bottom. I am not doing demagogy, but believe me that we are in chaos.
Europe itself asks us to intervene by conditioning aid for the virus (we are at this point!) In exchange for reforms and - first of all - in the all-Italian way of "not" doing justice given the biblical times of our civil and criminal justice .
In my life I have dealt with many magistrates finding them serious and honest (even among people known to be left), others manifestly incapable or substantially non-performing and some decidedly partisan.
The problem, however, is not the individual magistrate, but the "system" that no longer holds and is sinking into a crisis far more serious than that which involved Minister Bonafede (obviously "acquitted" with Renzi's obvious somersault) last week in a controversy entirely focused on the release of the mafia from prisons and the suspected appointment at the top of the penitentiary system.
A crisis that goes even beyond the scandalous talks of Palamara ("Face of tuna" called him in suspicious times the former president Cossiga in a video that went viral on social networks, yet "tuna" in the meantime had risen to heads of magistrates!), one who openly invited other judges to frame the then Minister Salvini "even if he's right".
A blatant, blatant, terrible abuse of a judiciary infiltrated by politics and used to blackmail opponents ...
Yet no one from the parts of the PD seems to be scandalized (since they were the convoys!) And even the former vice-president of CSM Legnini - in the m…. up to the neck - speaks of "provocations". But the evil is even more profound, subtle, tumoral because it involves the leaders of the state, politics and dishonesty.
In a week not only Palamara's statements come out (but it is "La Verità", not the big press!), But the prosecutor of the Republic of Taranto is also under investigation and sensational developments are opening up on possible involvement and pressure from the ex President Napolitano to silence relations between the state and the Mafia, while the CSM's paralysis is clear.
Here is the first point: the crisis is at such a high level also because the President of the Republic Mattarella - not only formally head of the Italian judiciary - continues to be silent, not to take measures, not to ask and openly impose the resignation to all those who are involved in asking to dissolve the CSM and its evil "currents". Why is Mattarella silent?
Perhaps because Palamara did not speak with his mirror, but with well-known representatives of the PD such as Legnini who were inserted at very high levels, alternating "passages" to the government and then putting on his toga, "directors" of appointments and transfers to the judicial offices.
Maybe President Mattarella didn't know, but is it ever possible? However now he knows ... yet this continues his embarrassing silence towards those who elected him (and perhaps would like to reelect him). I do not think it is a tacit acceptance of the system, but it is a silence that can no longer be tolerated in a Republic that is not bananas, because for 3.000 years it is precisely the law that distinguishes a civilization and our Constitution is very clear in emphasizing independence of powers. I therefore expected at least one of his formal acts in the Chambers, an assumption of responsibility ... nothing.
Meanwhile, the mixture of politics and the judiciary has overcome all logic, all tolerance, all modesty, but this does not seem to interest anyone, while only if "The law is the same for everyone" the citizen feels protected and is required to behave well. This is why I would like from Mattarella not words but deeds, decisions, unequivocal positions ... which have been delayed for months.
What I ask myself is why - if most of the Italian judges behave correctly - do not rise at least "from below" a deep criticism of their caste and the way it is directed. The silence leaves us afraid that after all the system for many robes is going more or less like this, with a thought for the career and the adequate friendships of "current" necessary to continue it.
Then came the Coronavirus which exposed the "practical" crisis of NOT "being able" to do justice in Italy. If in schools we have tried well or badly to teach at a distance, as in all companies we have sought buffer remedies to continue working, Italian justice - in practice - has instead simply given a flat rate. Stopping almost all the pending cases, the chancelleries, the offices in a general paralysis that is systematic, while the "Palace" gigionizes only on words. Words, words, words on prescription, wiretapping, privacy and maximum systems, but NOTHING on how to solve everyday problems.
I will be brisk and brutal: how many people in the judicial offices continued to take their wages without working and without risking a job or layoffs? While the Italy of lawyers is in crisis and the risk of the law firms failing, the "counterpart" does not blink: who cares if a sentence does not arrive, if the postponements are for months, if the hearings are not held.
But who can the citizen in the middle turn to?
Not to politics because he is an accomplice, not to the Quirinale who is silent, not to the judges because "dog does not eat dog". This is an all-Italian crisis which sees us once again last in Europe.
Other than epidemic: it is a cancer, but above all it is an incivility.