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Secondo le Nazioni Unite Berlusconi disprezza il potere giudiziario
18 feb 2003 - Un rapporto delle Nazioni Unite, reso pubblico ieri
dall'agenzia di stampa Reuters, mette a disagio Silvio Berlusconi, che oggi
dovrebbe incontrare il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite Kofi Annan.
Il rapporto accusa il primo ministro, attualmente coinvolto in un processo
per corruzione, di indebolire la giustizia italiana e di agire come se fosse
"al di sopra delle leggi".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,897736,00.html
Berlusconi scorns judiciary, UN says
Sophie Arie in Rome
Tuesday February 18, 2003
The Guardian
Silvio Berlusconi has been accused in a UN report of undermining the Italian
judiciary and acting as if he is "above the law".
The report criticises the prime minister, who is on trial for corruption,
for scorning the judges, manipulating the legal system to his personal
advantage and delaying much-needed judicial reforms.
The report, which has not been officially released but was leaked yesterday
to Reuters news agency, is highly embarrassing to Mr Berlusconi, who is due
to meet the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, in Rome today.
It says: "It is not proper for the prime minister, being the chief executive
of the government, to be seen to be taking advantage of procedural
weaknesses in the system.
Mr Berlusconi, who controls much of Italy's media and is the country's
richest man, has brushed off several corruption investigations since his
election in June 2001.
In an impromptu television address in January he said that he would not
resign even if found guilty by the court in Milan trying him for trying to
bribe judges to influence a corporate buy-out in his favour in 1985.
He said that "leftwing Jacobin magistrates" were putting the constitution at
risk, and complained of "incredible judicial persecution" when the supreme
court rejected his allegation of judicial bias.
"The government is of the people and of those who represent them, not of
those who won a civil service exam and now wear a toga," he said in the
television address.
Mr Berlusconi argues that power has gone to the heads of the judiciary since
the tangentopoli (Bribesville) corruption investigations brought down the
Christian Democrat government in the early 1990s.
When a court ruled in November that the former prime minister Giulio
Andreotti had masterminded the murder of a journalist, Mr Berlusconi
described it as "justice gone mad".
The report, written by Dato Param Cumaraswamy, the UN's special rapporteur
on the independence of judges and lawyers, said that such public outbursts
"undermine judicial independence, which is pivotal for the rule of law in a
democracy".
Mr Cumaraswamy said that by choosing not to attend two court sessions, one
involving a business associate, Mr Berlusconi had "showed not only
disrespect for the majesty of the courts but was seen as being above the
law".
The report argues that by failing to reform Italy's legal system, Mr
Berlusconi is perpetuating a system that helps defendants avoid judgment.
The Milan trial has dragged on for nearly three years, constantly stalling
on minor legal technicalities.
Critics say Mr Berlusconi has used his influence in the media to stay out of
jail by intimidating the trial judges.
Mr Berlusconi, who was in Brussels yesterday for an EU summit, made no
comment.
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(cartello alla manifestazione di Parigi del 15/02/03)

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