We have talked a lot about Trump, Trump’s trials and convictions, the relationship between justice and politics in the United States. Today let’s talk a little bit about the relationship between justice and politics in Italy, since we are in the business of creating a cultural bridge of communication and journalism between Italy and the United States. So if the famous Flavian Martian, a great writer precisely from our country, came so suddenly to earth today, precisely to Italy, and read the newspapers, he would see headlines like this.
Investigated half the government, if not half mathematically, at any rate in many important roles, starting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, two important ministers Nordio of justice and Piantedosi in the interior, and an undersecretary to the Council presidency, Mantovano. The reason more or less everyone knows: the arrest and release, both very mysterious in some ways, of Libyan judicial police chief Almasri. So what happened? It is not well understood: on the one hand there is an explanation of Kafkaesque bureaucracy, on the other hand there are those who cry conspiracy, the arrest order comes from the International Criminal Court of the Hague, an institution, an international authority in which our country and many European countries also participate, in which this gentleman wandered for many days before ending up in Italy.
Why did the arrest order come specifically to Italy? Who arrested him and who released him? You know the ending, this gentleman was repatriated on a state flight quickly, for security reasons it was said, so our government said. I am not against the conspiracy thesis, as always however they have to be proven a little bit in depth. I have gone many times, for my own programs, to Paris to try to understand what had happened in Diana’s death, I am convinced that it was a conspiracy, but no one can prove it and therefore the judgments of ordinary French-English justice that have reconstructed that it was an accident, the strangest accident in the world, as this is perhaps the strangest arrest in the world, are valid. But having said that, let’s go back to the relationship between justice and politics: it’s now at a very high level of confrontation, because perhaps for the first time since Tangentopoli, 1992-93 we have arrived at Red Rationem, as they say. Either we do the justice reform that provides for separation of careers, new CSM and many other nice regulations that will make the political and legislative power, or the magistrates once again, (they have already done it on the choice to make the so-called centers for immigrants in Albania, but they have done it many times before even with the leaders of the last 30 years) will dictate the agenda of politics in this country.
It is a clash that will not end with a 0-0.
The article The politics and justice match comes from TheNewyorker.
