Ruby Ter trial, the Sicilian prosecutor “offended” by the Union of Criminal Chambers: “Seriously investigated, never animated by political intent”

In the Milanese investigation Ruby Ter «I was not animated by any political intent. I carried out the investigations with commitment, seriousness and intellectual honesty, as I do in all the proceedings I followed and as I swore to do when I assumed my duties”. The additional prosecutor of Milan, Tiziana Siciliano, owner of the trial in which Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted on February 15, has decided to respond 48 hours later to a statement from the Union of Italian criminal chambers. “No one today can seriously doubt that Silvio Berlusconi has been the object of a political-judicial aggression that has no precedent in the history of the Republic,” wrote the national junta of criminal lawyers on July 12 in the note in which it expressed condolences for the death of the former Prime Minister and leader of Forza Italia.

A passage that didn’t go well with prosecutor Siciliano who entrusted the personal reply in a short written text of a few lines sent to the mailing list of the National Association of Magistrates. “I don’t know what position the ANM intends to take, but I want to express that I feel personally offended by the words read in the press release of the criminal chamber”, underlined Siciliano, noting that he had requested the trial, together with his colleague Luca Gaglio, for the founder of Forza Italia and the 28 co-defendants, accused for various reasons of judicial corruption and false testimony on what happened at the alleged elegant dinners at Villa San Martino in Arcore, «in the belief that they are in possession of probative elements suitable for obtaining a conviction for the crimes I thought they had committed.” In the note, the lawyers of the Union of Criminal Chambers also spoke of “dozens and dozens of investigations and trials, with accusations up to mafia collusion and the role of instigator of massacres, concluded with a single conviction for tax avoidance”. Events which they say are “the most evident, impressive confirmation, which restores to us the bitter reality of a country in which the exercise of criminal action has become – and not only against Silvio Berlusconi – a privileged instrument of political struggle ».

In the days following the disappearance of the founder of Mediaset – from what has been known – a common discontent emerged in the exchanges of emails between the magistrates for the statement of condolence published by the Anm itself two days ago. Many would not have shared and consequently would have dissociated from the words used in the note, namely “the ANM joins the sentiments of condolences for the disappearance of the president and senator Silvio Berlusconi, the undisputed protagonist, for a long and important period, of the life country’s politics”.