The President of the Region Giovanni Toti “just like any suspect, he can present a statement” or make “spontaneous declarations to the Review”. This is what the Genoa prosecutor specifies, Nicola Piacente, regarding the setting of the date on which the governor could be heard, i.e. in the week between 27 May and 2 June. The one before the public prosecutor “is not a guarantee interrogation” and therefore “he is not obliged to do it”.
Always in a general way, continues the prosecutor «the suspect who decides to avail himself of the right not to answer before the investigating judge, can make spontaneous statements. Even at the Review and if there is urgency you can present briefs.” The only moment in which the prosecutor’s office is obliged to question the suspect “is during the investigation closing phase”. In all other phases, “it is the prosecutor’s decision as to whether and when”.
Prosecutor Piacente thus recalls, with the criminal procedure in hand, that it is not up to the suspects to dictate or attempt to dictate the timing of the investigation: words, those of the magistrate, to reject the idea, aired above all by the centre-right, that the investigation is instrumentally blocking administrative activity.
Not least the statements of the Deputy Minister of Transport Edoardo Rixi, according to whom the investigation blocks the appointment of the new president of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea. Deputy Minister of Transport Edoardo Rixi explained it on the sidelines of a conference in the Ligurian capital: «The problem is that with the arrest of the president of
Region, we don’t know who to ask for the agreement. We have an impasse
from a formal point of view on how to proceed”.
