Rome, July 18 (LaPresse) – "In some ways, you were even too restrained in listing these anomalies." This was the comment from Justice Minister Carlo Nordio at the 4th edition of 'Talk About the Mafia' in Rome, in response to journalist Tommaso Cerno’s speech. Cerno had said: "As soon as there's a vote on the separation of careers, the Almasri case resurfaces; then there's a vote on the CSM and the Open Arms trial comes back."
"The other day," Nordio continued, "a serving magistrate publicly listed all the mistakes I supposedly made in the Almasri case. Now, granted I may have made a thousand mistakes or more – but a sitting magistrate publicly criticizing the actions of a minister in a newspaper? In any other country in the world, they'd have called in the orderlies. So why don't we do that? First of all, it may become a matter for review. But what kind of review? All the previous cases have ended up before the domestic jurisdiction of the CSM, which is made up of people elected by those they are supposed to judge. That’s why they’re afraid, and that’s why we’ll carry this reform through."