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You will never have to put the toga back on again. Withdrawn from the judiciary, for having committed “very serious” disciplinary offenses. Because it was, said the Supreme Court attorney general during the indictment, “director and organizer of the appointment strategy” of the leaders of the most important Italian prosecutors. Thus ends, at least in front of CSM, the story of Luca Palamara. The decision of the Palazzo dei Marescialli college came at around 1:00 p.m., after two and a half hours in a council room and a procedure that, which actually began in September, was closed very quickly. Too much, according to those who argue that the rights of defense are not fully guaranteed. This accusation was rejected by the General Prosecutor of Cassation, which yesterday requested the most serious sanction that the law provides for a magistrate.
At the center of the story is the will, for the established and not presumed university, to put the appointment of Giuseppe Pignatone’s successor to the test. That is, the new chief prosecutor in Rome. The same power of attorney where Palamara worked as a substitute. And, again, the same offices that at that time – we are talking about the night between May 8 and 9, 2019 – had concluded the investigations into Luca Lotti. The parliamentarian dem, along with his colleague Cosimo Ferri, was one of the protagonists of the story that ended up on the bench at the Palazzo dei Marescialli. During the now famous meeting at the Champagne hotel in Rome Palamara – former president of the ANM and leader of the centrist Unicost current, in the face of today’s radiation already suspended from salary and position – the two parliamentarians and some councilors of the CSM, who are then discharged. That conversation was captured by the Trojan inoculated on Palamara’s cell phone, which was being investigated in Perugia for alleged corruption. What do the interlocutors say? They talk about the chessboard of the next dates. And it seems that they want to bet everything on Marcello Viola, Florence’s attorney general, to the detriment of the other two candidates for the top of the Roman prosecutor’s office. That meeting, for the Attorney General of Cassation, represents a ‘unicum’ in the history of the Italian judiciary ”.
The person concerned did not speak in the classroom, but in the afternoon he gave a speech at the Radio Radicale headquarters: “I wear and will always wear the gown in my heart – he said – I pay for everyone.” Announcement of the appeal before the United Civil Sections of Cassation and, possibly, before the European Court of Human Rights. “I do not want to assume the role of victim at all,” he continued, “rest assured, just as I do not want to be discouraged by what happened today, my commitment will be to fight for the truth.” On the events of the Champagne hotel, he continued: “23 years of career have been questioned for a dinner.”
His lawyer, Stefano Giaime Guizzi, shortly before the college met to decide, said: “We hear that yours will be a political sentence because of the repercussions that a decision against removal would have on the judicial order and in relationships.” with other institutions. I refuse to believe it. I am convinced that any decision will be the result of your autonomous and independent judgment ”. Hearing the decision, he said he did not believe it was a political verdict and respected the judge’s choice. Yesterday Guizzi had warned in advance the possibility of resorting to the European Court of Human Rights to complain about an alleged violation of the rights of defense. Against the decision of the CSM, Palamara may address the joint civil sections of the Court of Cassation.
With today’s decision, we are writing a fundamental chapter in a story that began almost a year and a half ago. From that meeting, intercepted and then made known by the press a few weeks later, an earthquake began in the world of robes. That they have tried and are trying to get up. But what the president of the ANM, Luca Poniz, called the “night of the judiciary” remains the sequel. The CSM will still have to evaluate various positions of the judges, first of all the former CSM advisers who attended the meeting at the Champagne hotel, and decide whether to sanction them or not. At the bottom there remains a moral issue that has involved the entire judiciary. And that right call, made by Palamara a few months ago: “I didn’t act alone. I was part of a system ”.
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