The CSM requests the opening of a protection procedure for the investigating judge of Milan

All the professional councilors of the CSM (with the exception of the members of Mi: Paola D'Ovidio, Eligio Paolini, Bernadette Nicotra, Maria Vittoria Marchianò, Luisa Mazzola and Edoardo Cilenti), together with the lay councilors Ernesto Carbone, Michele Papa and Roberto Romboli, have requested the opening of a procedure to protect Tiziana Landoni, investigating judge at the Court of Milan, in relation to the declarations of the Prime Minister on the non-validation provision of the arrest of Youssef Siher.

The document was deposited at the Presidential Committee of Palazzo Bachelet. "The statements are considered unacceptable because they go beyond the boundaries of legitimate criticism of judicial measures, risking delegitimizing the magistrate and the judicial function itself - according to the content of the request for practice to protect the magistrate -. Judicial decisions can be criticized, even severely, but cannot be represented as an obstacle to the safety of citizens or a mortification of the work of the police." And again: "particularly worrying is that similar statements come from the highest government authority, with the risk of transforming unwelcome judicial decisions into occasions for political conflict. Collective security and respect for constitutional guarantees are not opposing values. The request for protection intends to reaffirm the role of the CSM in safeguarding the autonomy and independence of the judiciary".