In recent days, the Naples prosecutor Nicola Gratteri spoke about the aptitude tests for teachers that the government and the centre-right majority want to introduce. He did it with evident irony: «I am ready to undergo any test. Indeed, let’s do them to everyone, even to those who govern us. And let’s add alcohol and drugs too.” And in the interview given to Tg1 he also added something else: «A person under the influence of drugs can have altered reasoning or can be blackmailed if, for example, he was photographed near cocaine». Today The truth by Maurizio Belpietro wonders if perhaps there is a precise reference behind the prosecutor’s words. Or a minister portrayed “while he was in the vicinity of the white powder”.
The prosecutor and aptitude tests
Antonio Rossitto writes that Gratteri’s words seem very cryptic. “I’m trained to say what I think,” he replied during the interview. Adding that he was addressing “those who made this law” (which is not yet law, ed). And therefore to the majority. But, the newspaper asks, did Gratteri personally see anything, as Officer Catarella would say to Inspector Montalbano? Or perhaps a colleague told him about a compromising shot? In any case, there could be some members of the majority who could be blackmailed, the newspaper claims. «He gets drunk like a sailor and pulls himself up like a vacuum cleaner», he adds. For this reason, instead of introducing tests for magistrates, ministers “should think about their supposed weaknesses. Remembering the motto of the anti-mafiosi: suspicion, assured Leoluca Orlando furioso (mayor of Palermo at the time of Cosa Nostra’s domination of the city, ed), is the antechamber of the truth.”
