Boccia trial, green light for the cameras of 'Un giorno in pretura'

Green light for filming by the broadcast "Un giorno in pretura", which can only be broadcast after the sentence, while the requests made by Le Iene and Radio Radicale were rejected. This is what the single judge of Rome decided in the trial of Maria Rosaria Boccia accused, among other crimes, of aggravated stalking, injuries, illicit interference in private life against the former Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano.

In the provision the judge writes that "the right to freedom of the press must be balanced with the need that" the "filming does not entail a 'prejudice to the regular conduct of the hearing or to the decision' so that, precisely in order to ensure first and foremost the authenticity of the evidence, this primary condition can only be ensured with the admission to the filming by the television program 'Un giorno in Pretura', since said program was the only one to guarantee the diffusion of the images at the end of the trial, especially after reading the device".

Regarding the courtroom hearings of the offended parties Sangiuliano and his wife - scheduled for the next hearings and for which the lawyers had requested closed doors - the Capitoline court states that "they do not fall within the scope of the trials referred to in art. 472 of the code of criminal procedure. However - adds the order - the provision which prohibits, in the event of lack of consent, the taking of images of parties, witnesses, experts, technical consultants, interpreters of any other subject that must be present".