Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on
Wednesday said an internal email written by Cassation Court
State Attorney Marco Patarnello in which he called Premier
Giorgia Meloni "dangerous" over her plans to reform the
judiciary was surprising as well as painful for him as a former
magistrate and that he was evaluating sending inspectors in.
"Stating that the prime minister, because she has no pending
investigations, is a greater danger than (late premier Silvio)
Berlusconi" and therefore "'we have to correct this" are
sentences of such gravity they must be taken into
consideration", said Nordio, during question time at the Lower
House.
He said the case was being examined to evaluate the possible
involvement of inspectors.
Patarnello said in the internal email of the judiciary's union,
the National Association of Magistrates (ANM), that Meloni was
more dangerous than Berlusconi, who battled the judiciary for
years through a string of legal woes, because she did not have
any cases pending for herself.
But he ended the email by saying that magistrates should not
engage in politics but rather do their jobs as best they could
while defending their independence and autonomy.
Several ministers accused the judiciary of pursuing an
anti-government agenda after the publication by conservative
daily Il Tempo of part of the e-mail from Patarnello, a leading
member of the leftwing Democratic Magistrature faction of the
judiciary, which is politicised.
Meloni also posted the extract on her social media accounts.
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