Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: Financial Times: guerra del governo contro la magistratura

Italian government in conflict with judiciary
By James Blitz in Rome
Published: December 6 2001 11:32 | Last Updated: December 6 2001 11:48
Italy's centre-right government was on Thursday in the throes of an
unprecedented conflict with the country's judicial authorities after an
organisation which represents the nation's public prosecutors announced its
mass resignation on Wednesday night.
In a surprise move, the governing body of the National Association of Public
Prosecutors (ANM) said it had resigned en masse following what it called
"the exceptional violence" of an attack on its activities by ministers
earlier this week.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, has fought a decade-long battle
against public prosecutors in Milan who have repeatedly sought to convict
him of numerous allegations relating to his business activities. But the
ANM's resignation is thought to be the first time that the body has
undertaken such a step since 1924, marking an unusually serious breakdown in
relations between the government and the judiciary.
The conflict between the centre-right government and the public prosecutors
exploded earlier this week when Roberto Castelli, the justice minister and a
member of the Northern League, launched a ferocious attack on Italy's public
prosecutors in a speech to parliament.
Mr Castelli said that the country's prosecutors "intend to carry out a
political struggle, improperly undertaking judicial activities and enjoying
a constitutional immunity that alters the balance of power." He announced
that the government would seek ways of taking disciplinary action against
prosecutors whom it deemed to be undertaking "political activity"
soecifically naming Francesco Saverio Borelli, the leading figure among the
Milanese prosecutors in the 1990s.
In response, the ANM's leadership said it was resigning because "we do not
accept that we should be judged in such a summary manner and in such an
unmotivated and unjust way."
In a move that further inflamed the atmosphere of hatred between the
government and the judiciary, Mr Berlusconi announced that his government
would speed up plans to implement a reform of the country's judicial system.
The prime minister told a meeting in Rome that recent actions by the
judiciary, including a decision to ignore new laws on cross-border exchange
of evidence, "has made it necessary to go back to the state of law and
accelerate the reforms." He told a meeting in Rome that instead of
implementing the overhaul of the judicial system over the next three years,
he would seek to do so within six months.
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