The investigation by the Milan Prosecutors office into the activity of creating dossiers and spying set up by Telecom has finished with a good 41 items on the charge sheet against 34 people: security officials within Telecom itself, paid private investigators, qualified top brass in the secret services, from officers and sub-officers in the Police, the Carabinieri and the Finance Police. There are 371 pages that illustrate a clear division between the Italy that is made of spies and those who manoevre who were working behind our backs and on our heads to collect information and blackmail people and institutions. Anyone wishing to read the whole text of the document click here.
Up until now, there’s nothing new in the light of day, it’s the usual “Italietta” of the deviated secret services, of the disinformation centres, of the centre of secret powers, of the numerous tiny and big “P2s” that are coming back.
However there is a “but”, a discrepancy that prevents the circle from being closed: who was, or rather, who is the beneficiary of their activity of spying and creating dossiers? Take care now, on a strictly judicial level, the “beneficiary”, can only be – by a geometric overlay – the brains behind the crimes committed.
The order does not say this, or rather it says it but - at least in its present state - it doesn’t identify them as a “physical person” but as “two persons in law”: Telecom Italia Spa and Pirelli Spa.
If I weren’t familiar with the way the Milan Prosecutors office works and if I didn’t have certainty of the really high professional standards of the investigating magistrates that were in charge of the inquiry, I could be led into thinking that they are hiding behind a veil so as to not write the first and second name of the “physical” “brains”, given that – by definition and by nature – no crime can be committed by an inanimate body, as are the “persons in law”: Telecom and Pirelli, but always and always by people who have eyes and hands and above all a “head”.
However, since I know how the investigations work, I am ready to bet that today’s notice of closure of the investigations is in reality not a “closure” but simply a “new opening”. A new phase in the “chess game”, still with everything to play and that the Milan Prosecutors office is getting ready to play on a full field, using the debate stage as an investigative “picklock” to get over the circle of “omertà” and cover-up that could have formed around the declarations of Giuliano Tavaroli, the organizer of the misinformation centre. A technique that has already been tried out by so many investigators and also by myself at the time of Mani Pulite {Clean Hands}, when in the ENIMONT trial at first I asked just for Sergio Cusani to be sent for judgement, and then to use the debate stage to put one in front of the other the various convenient versions that the protagonists of the affairs were reciting.
Even in the Telecom affair, I believe that it will happen like that because it is unthinkable (and for Armando Spataro impossible even to think of it) that the Milan Prosecutors office has renounced to search for the “brains”. Tavaroli, who has done so much for his company and in whose interests he was working, will feel that he has been turfed out and he will seek revenge by vomiting on those who sent him, all the facts and the bad facts that he knows about (or more simply that he says he knows about).
That will be the most sensitive moment for the magistrates because they will have to distinguish the facts from the opinions, the truth from what seems true, the certainty from the conjecture, the direct knowledge from that that is referred to, the truth of the vendettas.