It’s nothing new in these latitudes, on the contrary. The shortage of magistrates in Palmi and Locri has become a constant with which public prosecutors and court presidents now find themselves having to deal cyclically. The chief prosecutor raised the alarm Emanuele Crescenti, highly experienced magistrate who, after the years spent in Palmi as deputy, returned as head of the Prosecutor’s Office. Since his return and with a full staff, numerous important investigations have been completed. The latest of which revealed an alleged round of sexual violence perpetrated against two girls who were still minors at the time. A demonstration that even in the ordinary prosecutor’s offices, where the ‘Ndrangheta are not dealt with, the work that the investigative office carries out is of fundamental importance for society and for the lives of citizens.
The fully staffed Palmi prosecutor’s office includes the presence of 9 deputy prosecutors, in addition to the chief prosecutor and his deputy. At this moment, two prosecutors have already left and one is on maternity leave. From now on, another two will be transferred, leaving the office with less than half of the staff to take on a large amount of work that is impossible to manage.
