Newsgroup: it.politica.polo
Titolo: Los Angeles Times:"La legislazione italiana intralcia la lotta contro il terrorismo"

Riporto integralmente l'articolo a tutta pagina del Los Angeles Times.
Scusate (amici di sinistra) ma non ho tempo di fare la traduzione.
Vi dico soltanto una cosa: gli americani dicono che questi rallentamenti e
intralci burocratici posti dal governo italiano rallenteranno migliaia di
processi e tra questi almeno uno di un accusato sospettato di essere
collegato a Al Qaeda, network di Osama bin Laden. Questo accusato e' stato
identificato dalle autorita' americane come supersospettato (prime
suspect) nell'attentato dell'11 settembre agli Stati Uniti.
Attenzione fascisti che adesso arriva anche lo zio Tom.
ITALY
BILL TO BOOST DEFENDANTS S' RIGHTS IN ITALY HINDERS TERRORISM WAR
Europe: Measure appears to violate EU cross-border cooperation. It could
slow cases against suspects with alleged ties to Bin Laden's network.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000079343oct04.story
ROME -- With the rest of Europe promising swifter cross-border cooperation
against terrorists, lawmakers here voted Wednesday to make it harder for
prosecutors to use evidence from other countries against criminal
defendants in Italy.
Supporters of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a defendant in three
long-running corruption cases, pushed an overhaul of the Italian penal
code through both houses of Parliament, overriding criticism that he is
weakening the anti-terror cause to wipe away his own legal troubles.
The legislation, which still has to be signed by President Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi, could slow thousands of cases. Among them is at least one against
defendants suspected of having links to the Al Qaeda network of Osama bin
Laden, who has been identified by American officials as the prime suspect
in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Italian presidents can send
legislation back to Parliament for changes but rarely do so.
Bitter Parliamentary Battles Over Legislation
Berlusconi's center-right coalition offered the bill as part of a judicial
reform package to strengthen the rights of defendants, setting off one of
the most bitter parliamentary battles since his government took office in
June.
Foreign judicial authorities will be required to follow all of Italy's
bureaucratic procedures, which are more cumbersome than those of most
other Western countries, before passing on trial evidence to their Italian
counterparts.
The tiniest procedural error could enable an Italian judge to throw out a
piece of foreign evidence--not only in future criminal cases but also in
those now underway.
"Every document of evidence [from abroad] would have to be rubber-stamped,
or photocopies would have to be authenticated by a judicial official, or a
translation would have to be made by a 'sworn expert,' or copies would
have to be sent to certain offices within a deadline," said Antonio Di
Pietro, a former prosecutor and critic of the measure.
"It's like saying, 'Give me a wrong rubber stamp in any part of the world,
and I will get you off the hook in Italy,' " he added.
The Justice Ministry said foreign evidence in as many as 5,401 pending
cases would have to be reviewed in light of the legislation.
One such case involves five North African terrorism suspects arrested in
April near Milan and charged with belonging to a criminal organization,
trafficking weapons and falsifying passports.
An Italian prosecutor investigating their suspected links with Al Qaeda
has gathered evidence from other countries, but it would have to be sought
again and resubmitted if it does not meet the new standard.
The measure could strengthen defendants' rights in at least one criminal
case against the 65-year-old tycoon-turned-prime minister.
Berlusconi, one of the world's richest individuals, was elected despite
the slow-moving corruption cases, which date to the mid-1990s. The charges
stem from his business activity in amassing three television networks, a
newspaper, a soccer team and extensive land, publishing and insurance
holdings.
In a case based in part on Swiss bank evidence, Berlusconi and a close
associate are accused of bribing judges in Rome to win a favorable ruling
on a large business transaction.
Defense lawyers last year asked an Italian court to reject legal documents
from Switzerland because their pages were numbered wrongly and were
photocopied, rather than original, material.
Bill Seen as Betraying a Promise to Allies
Switzerland's ambassador to Italy, Alexis Lautenberg, said he was
"astonished" by the legislation, which grew from legislative amendments to
an Italian-Swiss accord on judicial cooperation.
Amid a shouting match that brought Senate deliberations to a brief
suspension Tuesday, opposition lawmakers accused the government of
betraying a promise to Western allies to join a common legal front against
terrorism.
Days after the Sept. 11 assaults, the European Union agreed in principle
to streamline criminal investigations by abolishing extradition procedures
among its 15 member countries, harmonizing their evidence procedures, and
making arrest and search warrants in one country applicable in all 14
others. Italy is a founding member of the EU.
The Italian legislation appears to violate that agreement. Center-left
opposition leader Francesco Rutelli said Berlusconi wants to rein in
"investigations on money laundering, tax havens and all other tools that
terrorist groups rely on to finance themselves."
Center-left leaders said they will challenge the law in Italy's
Constitutional Court if Ciampi signs it.
Gaetano Pecorella, Berlusconi's lawyer and the head of a parliamentary
judicial affairs committee, rejected the criticism as "grotesque."
He said the opposition "is looking for any occasion to say that our laws
are favoring one person or another or damaging the country."
Berlusconi won a separate victory last week when Parliament narrowed the
definition of certain white-collar crimes involving false accounting,
another allegation for which he is on trial.
At the same time, the prime minister offered his long-promised plan to
deal with the conflicts of interest resulting from his ownership of news
media outlets: Leaders of his majority coalition in Parliament will
appoint a three-member watchdog group to monitor "possible conflicts" and
report back to lawmakers.
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Tutti uniti contro il governo dei ladri e degli amici dei ladri.
Per il referendum abrogativo della legge sulle rogatorie internazionali
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"Il problema che se gliela dai in inglese, a questi
tifosi teste rasate da stadio, manco la capiscono.
Forse è il caso di pubblicarla in italiano e sulla Gazzetta
dello Sport, al lunedì mattina...
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