But to grasp the significance of Crosetto’s new “scream” we need to take a step back, until November 23, 2023. That day, precisely on the pages of Courierthe co-founder of Fratelli d’Italia dropped words that were boulders and unleashed a earthquake, political, institutional and media. He said that the greatest danger for the continuity of the executive “is that of those who have always felt like an antagonistic faction and who have always undermined centre-right governments: the judicial opposition”. Interviewed by Paola Di Caro, Crosetto accused the left wing of the judiciary of meeting «to stop the anti-democratic drift which Meloni takes us to”, which naturally he doesn’t believe. And he predicted, triggering the ANM rebellion, that “this season” would open before the European Championships.
And so on Thursday evening, in a long post on “I told you…”. What made his prophecy come true was, in fact, the investigation that broke out in Liguria in the middle of the electoral campaign for the European elections and which the minister, as a “free citizen” and “in a personal capacity”, took it upon himself to tear to pieces. He read the papers and, via social media, went on the attack: «I have the impression that, in this matter, there is little interest in the search for truth». Where the key thesis is that, “with the logic used for Toti”, everyone can be arrested: mayors, governors, public managers “and even the majority of magistrates”.
Replying the next day to CourierCrosetto keeps the point: «Toti didn’t pocket anythinga, personally nor illegally”. How can you be so sure? «He didn’t violate any rules. In two decades of regional government they challenged him for 70 thousand euros of regular financing in exchange for lawful acts.” The judges don’t think so, minister… «According to them it is improper corruption, because it is not necessarily true that the public purpose was pursued. What was the public purpose to be pursued, for the prosecutor? He understands that, if so, they can arrest anyone? The serious issue is not the investigation, which is based on nothing and has a strange timing, but the arrest. A person who has not committed an illegal act cannot be deprived of his liberty.”
With an ounce of malice one might think that the minister is raising his tone in a guaranteeist sense because he fears he too will end up under investigation. An uncomfortable topic, yet Crosetto does not shy away: «I have been a guarantor for twenty years. I have never had investigations and I am not afraid of them. Among other things, not even electoral funding, since I’m not in Parliament.” Why does he lash out against the robes? «I’m not interested in robes, but in the rule of law». Shaken by the judicial storms that hit one region after another, politics is reflecting on the need for a crackdown on private financing of parties. But it is a topic that Crosetto does not want to go into: «I only deal with defense, in government. And as a free citizen I try to highlight when the rule of law is in crisis.”
It’s not over, because yesterday the minister returned to writing on A mysterious interlocutor confesses that he (very much) fears the robes and compliments G. (Guido, ed.) for the courage to say what he thinks about the judiciary. And he, Crosetto, replies that if an “authoritative person in this country” like his interlocutor is “afraid of a state power whose task should be the search for Justice, we are not a complete democracy».
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