Nordio against the ANM, “interference” from them. The association: magistrates have the right and duty to speak

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“If a magistrate individually believes from his point of view that a law is wrong, no one has the right to take his word away or to say that he interferes”. But if “the representative of a union of magistrates, before the text of the bill was known, pronounces a whole series of very severe criticisms”, then, “in my opinion in correct Italian they mean interference”. The Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio intervenes on the controversy with the president of the ANM on the bill that has just been fired, reiterating that “the institutional interlocutor of the Government and of politics is not the union, but the CSM”

«Barbaric interceptions, we will intervene radically»

«We will intervene on wiretapping much more radically. That this is a barbarity that costs 200 million euros a year to achieve minimal results is there for all to see». So again the Minister of Justice at Taobuk in Taormina. «We spend a colossal amount on investigations that achieve minimal results, among other things ruining people’s lives. I would like to remind you that the law prevents the publication of judicial documents. They are published anyway and nobody says anything. But the law is already there.

“If Europe asks for it, we will reformulate the abuse of office”

«If Europe were to ask us for a sort of remodeling of our repressive integrated system, we are willing to welcome it, but not in the form in which the abuse of office existed, which was so evanescent atypical as to have no equal, other, in no other European legal system», Nordio adds, going into detail on one of the points envisaged by the reform.

Anm: magistrates have the right and duty to speak

The reaction is not long in coming. «The words of the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio can only be replied by recalling that the magistrates, and the ANM which has represented them for over a century, have not only the right but also the duty to speak, to enrich the debate on issues of justice», is the reply of the president of the ANM Giuseppe Santalucia. «Because in this way they broaden the comparison and contribute, with their reasoned and reasoned point of view, to improve where possible the quality of the reforms. This is the essence of democratic life.”