«Spectacolourisation of investigations»: the ministry's spotlight on the prosecutor's offices of Cagliari and Tempio
«A total of 13 pools of prosecutors were monitored», explained Undersecretary Delmastro, responding to a question from Enrico Costa (Action), promoter of the amendment to the code which imposes a ban on publishing the ordinances
Lighthouse of the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Justice on 13 Public Prosecutor's Offices, including in Sardinia.
This was made known by the Undersecretary of Justice Andrea Delmastro Delle Vedove , speaking in the Chamber to answer a question from Action MP Enrico Costa .
These are the Public Prosecutor's Offices of Avellino, Brescia, Cagliari , Ferrara, Catanzaro, Frosinone, Livorno, Rimini, Rovigo, Tempio Pausania , Vercelli, Latina, Turin, on which, explained Delmastro, the Inspectorate "has activated monitoring" insofar as concerns their methods of communicating about ongoing criminal proceedings.
Delmastro confirmed how the Government intends to «guarantee the presumption of innocence, avoid media spectacularisation, which has done so much harm to the very perception that citizens have of justice» and spoke of the «need to completely review the regulation of investigative acts with particular attention to wiretaps" recalling the "regulatory innovations" introduced, "aimed at strengthening the privacy of third parties". He then recalled how "the Public Prosecutor's obligation to supervise even drafts" is expanded and "the judge's duty to exclude everything that concerns third parties" is established, prohibiting the disclosure of "their data". "In the amendments - underlined the undersecretary - a ban was therefore envisaged on the publication in full or in extract of the text of the precautionary custody order".
Enrico Costa is precisely the deputy who proposed the change to the criminal procedure code, approved in the Chamber (with Action voting together with the centre-right) and awaiting the green light from the Senate, which prohibits the literal publication of precautionary custody orders .
A controversial rule, considered by journalists to be a sort of "gag" on free information . Of these hours the note released by the Fnsi on the matter, which reads: «On 19 December the Chamber of Deputies approved an amendment to the code of criminal procedure to prohibit the publication of precautionary orders, in full or in extract, until the end of the preliminary hearing. The text, presented by Enrico Costa (Action), was voted by the entire parliamentary spectrum, with the exception of M5S, Pd and Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra. Even if the Senate were to approve the law - underlines the Fnsi - the autonomy of journalists would be compressed ."
«We would be forced – continues the Fnsi – to be less precise, analytical and verifiable in the account of an act that is public such as the deprivation of personal liberty, with the risk of knowing very little until the preliminary hearing, several months or years later the alleged crime. Just two examples of journalistic investigations that have found, in the freedom to inform, reasons to get to the truth and provide justice: the case of Stefano Cucchi, the story of the cable car that crashed from Mottarone.
Everyone would be harmed – concludes the note –: the citizens who consume the news, the magistrates, the lawyers and those subjected to the precautionary measure".
(Unioneonline/lf)
