«This is a sovereignist government that does not respect European laws and aims to silence the judiciary. We will not remain silent and will defend our autonomy and independence. We don’t want to end up like Hungary and Poland». This is what he declared to La Stampa the deputy prosecutor of Reggio Calabria and national secretary of Democratic Judiciary Stefano Musolino.
«It is our duty – he adds – to do moral suasion to explain to citizens the interests at stake also by virtue of a certain press that does not provide correct information, but only the interest of the government, like those who published the emails from the ANM chat, confidential documents that have been exploited. That sentence was extrapolated from a broader and more in-depth context where the colleague also reiterated that we magistrates ‘must not engage in political opposition’. But these words were not taken up by the Prime Minister and a distorted truth emerged. It shouldn’t happen that you take just a few sentences from an email and construct a different narrative from the full text».
Salvini, he is reminded, maintains that Judge Patarnello should be fired: «Unfortunately, it is not the first time that Salvini attacks people instead of discussing issues he doesn’t like. He had already done so with the judge of Catania Iolanda Apostolico, guilty of having weakened the Cutro decree”. «I find the statement that judges do not collaborate with the government even more serious. There is a fundamental error in Meloni’s idea, she wants a servant judiciary. It should instead take into account the separation of powers guaranteed by the Constitution.”