“We are going to propose an in-depth review” of the wiretapping system “and we will strictly monitor any arbitrary and improper disclosure.” So announced the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, illustrating the programmatic lines of his Dicastery in the Senate Justice Commission.
“Conversations are no longer allowed to end up in the newspapers. Wire-tapping leaks will no longer be tolerated. Inspections will begin immediately.” Referring to Article 15 of the Constitution, it is important to mention the honor and freedom of “citizen communication”. Because the use of interceptions in Italy is “much higher than the European average and the average of Anglo-Saxon countries with high costs” with results that “often lead nowhere”. In short, “there has never been a sentence imposed solely on the basis of wiretaps that have now become an instrument of evidence,” continued Nordio. Phone tapping-he underlined-is a “deadly instrument of personal and often political delegitimization” with “often controlled” transcriptions, a “blasphemous” violation of the Constitution. For all these reasons, a profound revision of the discipline will be proposed “and we will strictly monitor any arbitrary and inappropriate dissemination”, specified Nordio.
The minister also announced the need to reform the penal code to adapt it to constitutional provisions, in addition to the full implementation of Vassalli’s code, together with a “liberal and guaranteed reform”. In particular, it is necessary to intervene on the “presumption of innocence that continues to be vulnerable in many aspects” such as with “the use of telephone tapping and the adoption of preventive detention as an instrument of investigative pressure”, explained the minister. Pre-trial detention “is the most excruciating paradox”, pre-trial detention “conflicts with the presumption of innocence” and more than to the single judge, “it would be reasonable to transfer the competence of the investigating judge to a court of second instance”, he said clarified the guard
Source: IL Tempo
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