Justice, Nordio defends the reform and attacks the judges: “They can’t criticize, it’s an interference”

“It is pathological that in Italy politics has very often succumbed to the pressures of the judiciary on the formation of laws. This is unacceptable. The magistrate cannot criticize the laws, like the politician the sentences”. It’s a tough attack, that of the Keeper of the Seals Charles Nordio. An invective directed against the judiciary, guilty of having criticized the justice package that the minister will bring to the cabinet today. “We listen to everyone, but the government proposes and the parliament disposes. This is democracy and no interference is allowed”, he said when interviewed by Skytg24. It’s a “partial” package at the moment, he added. And which for now will consist of three key elements: the stop to the crime of abuse of office, the tightening on wiretapping and pre-trial detention.

On the first point Nordio is categorical. He claims: “The crime of abuse of office has been modified several times to limit its limits, but entries in the register of suspects and guarantee information continued which constituted the real reason for the fear of signing for which mayors and administrators did not sign anything and this is a great economic damage that is poured on the citizens”. As regards the wiretapping chapter, the minister explains that “intervention will be made to protect the dignity and honor of people who are involved without knowing it and without being interested in wiretapping”. And again: “We now needed to bring a guarantee orientation package, the discipline of interceptions will be radically changed when the new code of criminal procedure intervenes”.