Catania, the Anm against Judge Sarpietro: “You anticipated the reasons for Salvini and belittled the younger colleagues”

There is a controversy between the head of the Gip of the Court of Catania Nunzio Sarpietro and the district council of the Anm, the national association of magistrates, for the post not proceeding statements against the leader of the League Matteo Salvini in the kidnapping process relating to the Gregoretti questioen.

The District Council of the ANM of Catania, “with reference to the interview given to the national newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera by the GUP holder of the proceedings against Sen. Matteo Salvini urges the District magistrates to respect the necessary boundaries of confidentiality and measure in communication with the press about the contents of the judicial activity carried out, deeming the reference to the reasons for measures not yet filed completely inappropriate “.

The Anm of Catania also expressed “deep concern for the disclosure of the procedures for assigning the deal, which distorted the application of the table culture, in due respect of the judge established by law, of Article 25 of the Constitution and the automatic criteria for assigning business “.

And finally, the Anm also expressed “solidarity and esteem to the magistrates of the section of the Judge for Preliminary Investigations and the Preliminary Hearing of the Court of Catania, who, young and old, individually and as an office, with high professionalism, uncompromising rigor , high workloads, exercise jurisdiction over all fronts of a highly complex and delicate district office like Catania “.

In the interview, the gup from Catania had expressed a series of utterances: «I considered that there was no violation of international and national legislation. Salvini complied with the agreements by arranging that migrants in difficulty be saved and delaying the disembarkation for two or three days, a faculty granted him by an administrative provision of February 2019 “. For Sarpietro “the indictment of Senator Salvini would have led to the indictment of former Prime Minister Conte and of the ministers of the time Di Maio and Toninelli, because they all agreed on the redistribution of migrants, invoked then as now”. Sarpietro had also reiterated that «Salvini adhered to international conventions by arranging that those people be saved. Then he decided to keep them on board the Gregoretti ship for 2-3 days in safe and cared for. There is an administrative rule that allows it ».