Salvini: "I don't change my mind, I defended Italy", besieged by political opponents and part of the judiciary

(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini wrote to the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella"I am guaranteed the right to a fair trial before an impartial third-party judge". The President Sarpietro of the Court of Catania, on the appeal of the former Minister of the Interior to the President of the Republic: “Rest assured Senator Salvini, he will have a fair and impartial trial like all citizens. Neither I nor any judge who dealt with this file we have nothing to do with Palamara. And I agree with him: those interceptions between magistrates are a shame ".

On October 3, Salvini must therefore appear before the Court of Catania, with some concern, to answer for his work as Minister of the Interior, in reference to the events of Navi Gregoretti and Open Arms, left off for days with hundreds of migrants. on board. 

Today Junta for Elections and Immunities will have to decide whether to give the green light to the magistrates investigating him. The junta, according to rumors, counts a perfect parity 10 are in favor (5 from the MSS, one from the Democratic Party, 3 from Iv, one from Leu and one from the mixed group) and 10 against (4 from Forza Italia, 5 from the League, one of Fdl). It will depend on the vote of the former M5S Michele Giarrusso.

Last night on the Facebook profile, the leader of the League: "PD and 5Stelle want to send me to trial for blocking a landing last year? Unlike others, I do not change my mind: stopping the landings of illegal immigrants, fighting smugglers, defending the safety, honor and dignity of Italy is not a crime, but a duty. Do they try me? I am calm. If a man is unwilling to fight for his ideas, either his ideas are worth nothing, or he is worthless.".

Salvini's concerns would find foundations in the sentences exchanged in chat, in 2018, between the judge Luke Palamara and his colleague Paolo Auriemma of the Prosecutor of Viterbo. Texts made public by a scoop of the newspaper La Verità, thanks to some essential points received, probably from someone within the Prosecutor's Office of Perugia, appropriately stimulated by the group of magistrates who recognize themselves in the current, Area and Autonomy and Independence led by the judge Pier Camillo Davigo, always opposed to Luke Palamara Group Unity for the Constitution

The currents that currently guide the ANM are, precisely, Constitution Units, which included Palamara and Area and Autonomy and Independence, of Davigo.

It was, in fact, the prosecutor of Perugia, charged with investigating the Roman judges, who, with the prosecutor De Ficchy, she managed to introduce a "trojan" to her colleague Palamara's cell phone by bringing out the contents of the chat with the judge Auriemma and much more. 

Auriemma in 2018, while the Prosecutor of Agrigento hypothesized the crime of kidnapping against Salvini for migrants detained on board the Diciotti ship, took the parts of the interior minister and asked Palamara: Am I wrong? Palamara: "No, you're right. But now you have to attack it".   

Chat that generated on the eve of Salvini's first hearing in Catania, an earthquake whose effects remain uncertain, especially if those who have to intervene have the strength and desire to do so.

The first blow toNational Association of Magistrates, where after a nine-hour river meeting, the president resigned  Luca Poniz (Independence Autonomy Area) and the secretary Julian Caputo (Constitution Unit), and with them the representatives of the respective groups. 

On the agenda of the Palamara dossier, which also revealed other unorthodox behaviors, it was found that among the activities of the various currents there were also those of favoring or opposing the activities of other colleagues but also promoting and rejecting others in their positions at the most prestigious and influential prosecutors. Nobody now trusts each other anymore and the internal struggle between the currents has become increasingly bitter, it looks like a den of vipers ready to poison each other or to poison the wells of knowledge, of transparency.

With a true "bronze face", judge Palamara regretted Salvini via twitter and on the day of the memory of a giant of justice, Giovanni Falcone It reaffirmed: "You are right, when you are wrong you have to admit it and I did it, expressing my deepest regret for the words said".

But in what hands did we end up? We hope that whoever can and must intervene intervenes. A glimpse could be the appointment of the super policeman Gianni DeGennaro (ex president Leonardo, director of Dis, etc,) as president of theAnac - National Anti-Corruption Authority. A name very welcome to President Mattarella, in fact!

In a message via Facebook, the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede defines the case as a real earthquake, which requires a timely response from the institutions because of the credibility of the judiciary. And he announces that this week will bring to the attention of the majority the plan for the reform of the Superior Council of the judiciary. Bonafede counts on an excellent convergence already found with the allies for the text that provides for a new electoral system removed from the degeneration of current accountancy, the identification of mechanisms for appointments inspired only by merit and the clear separation between politics and the judiciary.

 

Salvini: "I don't change my mind, I defended Italy", besieged by political opponents and part of the judiciary