Malagiustizia, sick Italy: here is a country that needs to change

First day of the League’s political school led by Armando Siri at Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome. Among the panels is also that of justice. An increasingly urgent topic given the data. In Italy, between 1991 and 31 December 2022, there were 30,778 victims of unjust detention, an average of just over 961 per year. A fact also consolidated by the fact that 45% of convictions in the first instance end in acquittal. Errors that cost the State, between compensation and compensation, 932 million and 937 thousand euros, an average of just under 29 million and 200 thousand euros per year. For a moment, however, let’s leave the numbers aside and talk about people. Among recent cases of bad justice, the story of Beniamino Zuncheddu (pictured) certainly stands out, who on January 26 was finally acquitted of triple homicide after spending 32 years in prison. A life spent behind bars, from the ages of 27 to 59, that no one can ever give him back.

The murder of the three Sardinian shepherds, Gesuino Fadda, his son Giuseppe and one of their employees, Ignazio Puxeddu, was in the news like the Sinnai massacre; one of the most serious judicial errors in Italian history. Zuncheddu’s main accuser, survivor Luigi Pinna, during the November 14 hearing revealed how at the time of the events a police officer, Mario Uda, showed him the photo of the pastor saying: “He is the culprit”. From then on, investigations focused only on Zuncheddu, focusing on the conflicts established between his family and the Faddas. More fortunate was Ambrogio Crespi, a guest on the first day of the Northern League’s political school, sentenced to six years in prison for external complicity with a mafia association in an investigation into vote buying. The accusation was that he had made himself available, as an electoral consultant, to favor the election of a politician close to the ‘Ndrangheta gangs in the regional elections in Lombardy in 2010. After 6 months in prison, on September 2, the President of the Republic granted partial pardon for Crespi. In the sense that he served one year and two months of his sentence, reducing it to 3 years, 11 months and 29 days, giving Crespi access to preventive detention with social services. He made it known that he would request a review of the trial, but in the meantime he became part of the long list of cases of bad justice.

Another sentence also arrived on January 26th, which acquitted Mario Ciancio Sanfilippo, Sicilian editor and owner of Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno e La Sicilia. They accused him of “external participation in a mafia association” and asked for a 12-year sentence. Two days ago the sentence came out that annulled everything by declaring his non-involvement in the events. The problem is that it took six years to declare him innocent, the trial actually began in 2018. Ciancio is now 91 years old and even if the Court of Appeal and Cassation returns all his assets it will be impossible for him to restart his activity. business ; not counting all its employees who were left on the streets. Politicians and commentators always propose the same solution: reform of justice with separation of careers and introduction of civil liability for magistrates.

In reality, for 30 years, governments of all colors have clashed over justice reform, which instead of being a bipartisan field has become a topic of political conflict, making the path to reform impractical. «We will not be a completely free, democratic, modern and developed country without a profound, necessary, fair, shared and urgent justice reform – said Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini speaking at the League’s political school – And those who make mistakes pay, too the personal responsibility of those who administer the freedom of men and women, from night until morning. If they make a mistake, like any other worker, they must pay the consequences for their dramatic error.” The problem is that this Government also does not seem to be willing to carry out a true and profound justice reform. For the Northern League deputy, Simonetta Matone, who also attended the League’s political training school, “in most cases there are two opposing tendencies: the justicialism of Fratelli d’Italia and the guaranteeism of Forza Italia and the League”. If these two trends do not find a synthesis, this government experiment will also have missed a great opportunity to finally make justice fairer.

Source: IL Tempo

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