24 October 2007

The Law is not equal for everyone

In Italy, information is used to keep the existing powers in place.
This statement can appear to be taken for granted, especially if it’s myself or Italia dei Valori saying it, as for some time we have been battling to get freedom of information.
The media have exploited my request to give back the “Why Not” investigation to De Magistris and have transformed it into a contest between myself and the Minister of Justice. The contest however is between the whole country and this political class that doesn’t want to let itself be judged.
Apart from a few exceptions, everyone in the Centre Left and the Centre Right is in agreement.
If De Magistris’s investigation had been in relation to common or garden citizens and not to politicians, would there have been the request to transfer De Magistris? The continual leaking of news and the news being published in the newspapers? And finally the transfer of the investigation documents to the Rome Prosecutor? The response can only be negative.
”Why Not” involves the President of the Council in person and the Minister of Justice in person, in an affair connected to the flow of thousands of millions of Euro of European funds in Calabria. De Magistris must take it to its conclusion or the Government will be really delegitimised.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice