in the courtroom for the indictment

Studying all night, for the last indictment before a new life. Last Tuesday, the morning spent in the courtroom, before the single judge, in…

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Studying all night, for the last indictment before a new life. Last Tuesday, the morning spent in the classroom, in front of the judge monocratic, to fight in a trial in which environmental crimes are contested, to be precise we talk (and will continue to talk) about waste disposal. Elsa Valeria Mignonefirst woman to hold the role of deputy prosecutor on that day Leccesay hello to everyone today for the pension “obliged”. We know, this is how it is for magistrates and it cannot be done differently: leave starts on the birthday, age is not revealed when talking about ladies (a question of etiquette). And experience and the desire to continue to untangle oneself among the folders counts for little. To develop crime reports and bring them to the courtroom, to be examined by the judges.

Yesterday, a trial for building crimes should have been held. Mignone was ready to discuss. The judgement, as continually happens in the courtrooms, was skipped due to a medical certificate which attested to a legitimate impediment. And the magistrate’s request that she wanted to discuss was of no avail. Ordinary stories of skipped trials. Greetings from everyone arrived in the corridors, on the chats, in the office. The messages of esteem, of affection. Memories. «We started together – says the lawyer Luigi Covella – who was in the courtroom for another trial – we practiced law as lawyers. Then she took another path.” Thousands of steps, in the same corridor, the one onto which the courtrooms overlook. Up and down the stairs of the building on Viale De Pietro.

The carreer

A long career spent fighting crimes, always within the scope of those who must apply the rules. At the forefront on the environmental and therefore also construction front. Against abuses, uncontrolled and irregular use of the land and coast. But also on the waste disposal side.
As deputy prosecutor, appointed unanimously by the CSM in 2015, she coordinated the pool of vulnerable groups that deals with all gender crimes. Violence against women, abuse in the family.
Even before that, the commitment in the DDA, where organized crime is fought. Today will be the last day in the office for Elsa Valeria Mignone who has continued to do her beloved job without sparing herself. Having ceased your semi-managerial role at the end of last year (there is an eight-year limit), you continued in the role of public prosecutor: on Tuesday, in front of the Court, we were discussing lists of witnesses to be thinned out, hearings to schedule. And a tight schedule of hearings that the prosecutor deemed essential to prove the accusation. Yesterday morning, at 9.30 promptly in front of the college, after having prepared the indictment which you will now pass on to a colleague. The greeting, she herself confided, was deliberately discreet for a thousand reasons: character, the emotion that makes it difficult to face the moment. The embrace of many, however, was sincere: the listeners who became experts, the colleagues, all those – judges, prosecutors, clerks and lawyers – who over time became friends.

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