“With the logic used for Toti (who is not contested for any personal or private advantage) they can arrest almost all the mayors, the regional presidents, the public managers. I suppose they could also arrest the majority of the magistrates. Preventive detention does not was born as a tool of intimidation or to increase the audience of an investigation. This is the case, especially since 5 months have passed since the request precautionary measures for their execution and that, as the Prosecutor himself declared, the establishment of the facts dates back to over a year ago”. Thus the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto on X.
“If therefore the precautionary measure is not justified precisely in the very times that the Prosecutor’s Office informed us about – Crosetto points out – why was it desired and implemented in these ways and at these times? Because there were elections, was the response. But Toti is not a candidate in these elections. I’m sorry to use this phrase but I will do it anyway: I predicted it well in advance.”
In his long post, the minister states that he knows “perfectly that I should not take a public position on an issue that does not concern me, that this tweet will be criticized and attacked and that I am already quite disliked by part of the judiciary, but I cannot help it less. I write what I would write, on similar facts, if they concerned a CSX Governor and I write it speaking in a personal capacity and not interpreting a position of the Government or of Fdi. Like Guido Crosetto I feel I have to say what I think”.
“Toti – he continues – was arrested for corruption. At 3 in the morning while he was in a hotel room. They contested funding for his electoral campaign, duly reported. But obtained, according to them, illegally, in exchange for “favours”. Like : “accelerate” a practice that has been stagnant for years.
I remember similar investigations. The most serious and striking concerned Fitto. Acquitted of all charges. Because they were all fake. After years of hell. Will this be the case in this case too? It seems so to me, having read the public documents and seeing that the prosecutor comes from the same prosecutor’s office that hit Fitto. Having said that – adds the head of the Defense – I would like to point out that it is up to the Prosecutor’s Office to prove his theses and not to him that he is innocent, because he remains innocent until a court has definitively convicted him.
From what I have read in the documents of the Prosecutor’s Office itself, however, I have the impression that there is, in this matter, little interest in seeking the truth. I would not like the desire to demonstrate that some people can, at any time, without any problem or risk, deprive anyone of their freedom to prevail.”
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