Carlo Nordio avalanche on the need for reforms. The Minister of Justice was a guest on the program “Fourth Republic” broadcast on January 23 on Rete4. At the heart of the debate are interceptions, the abolition of abuse of power and the simplification of the relationship between citizens and the judiciary. And on TV, the minister reveals a background: the modification of the abuse of office was also requested directly by the mayors of the Democratic Party. “It was, privately, the same mayors of the Democratic Party who came to me in a procession to implore the abolition or radical modification of the crime of abuse of power, for no longer being able to work – said the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, a “Fourth Republic” – It is an evanescent crime and can be contested against anyone for anything. We have 5,800 cases and in the end 9 convictions».
Among the initiatives aimed at simplifying the relationship between justice and citizens is the possibility of requesting a criminal certificate at the post office. In Italy, “the absolute priority at the moment is the need to bring justice, for what can be done, to a level of efficiency by recovering a series of resources: speeding up civil trials and limiting, instead of the criminal aspect, the so-called “fear of signing” – added Nordio – The first part of my reform is more substantial and is to bring justice closer to the citizen. We are working on the fact, for example, that if a citizen has to ask for a criminal record instead of going to the court, which is perhaps 50 kilometers away, go to the post office. We will do this from Monday, it will come into force with a project that is an absolute modernization”, announced the Guardian of the Seals. “The citizen – concluded – it will have a justice of proximity that will be very effective from an economic point of view, if we take into account that the slowness of the processes costs us 2% of GDP per year”.
Impossible not to address the issue of interceptions. «Most of the interceptions that we have seen reported and that are disproportionate compared to those in other countries, have an enormous cost, and are not aimed at mafia and terrorist crimes, but unfortunately they are carried out due to the scarce availability of police forces, who work as they can , but they are suffocated by the lack of resources – explains Nordio – And that makes many prosecutors resort, and so do I, to this form of investigation from which some evidence can be extracted, but it is not worth what it costs both in terms of money and also in terms of defaming people’s honor. The issue is the abuse of interceptions. These intercepts certainly served and will serve for a whole series of operations, to understand how these people move around, what problems they may have, if a person is sick or not, and therefore to understand which hospitals they have access to, all this information is not finished in the newspapers, do not constitute evidence of the trial but are indispensable for finding the evidence».
Source: IL Tempo
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