Berlusconi's conflicts of interest hold back vital reforms

By Paul Betts

Published: June 8, 2010

Temperatures are rising in Italy and not just because summer has arrived. In Italian politics the atmosphere is tense. All the more so following the government's tardy admission that after all, the country is no different from other eurozone members in requiring speedy and unpopular austerity measures.

But one issue generating significant heat has, on the face of it, little to do with the economy. This is a law the Berlusconi government is attempting to ram through parliament, aimed at choking off the widespread use by investigating magistrates of telephone intercepts to expose crime and corruption, and the media's right to publish the transcripts.

The leaking and the publication of wiretap transcripts has seemingly become the rule rather than the exception when exposing dubious dealings and outright criminality. No friend of the magistrates, Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister, has made it his priority to legislate to restrict the use of such intercepts.

Many see this as the latest in a long line of measures designed to serve his personal interests. Indeed, transcript-inspired scandals have once again erupted uncomfortably close to Mr Berlusconi. A few weeks ago, Italy's industry minister was forced to resign, while denying wrongdoing and pledging to defend himself against claims that an apartment he owned was partly paid for by others.

Restricting the use of wiretaps to cases involving the mafia and terrorist activity, as the draft law proposes, would see other equally reprehensible activities slip through the net. Think of the 2005 transcripts in which the then governor of the Bank of Italy, Antonio Fazio, was revealed to be in cahoots with Gianpiero Fiorani, the head of Banca Popolare Italiana, over the latter's dubious tactics in the battle for the bank Antonveneta. Both men were forced to resign in disgrace. Without the transcripts they would probably have escaped sanctions.

But it is the frequency of the taps that points to the real problem - a structural breakdown in trust between the judicial system and those in government. With the process of bringing all kinds of wrongdoers to justice in Italy so easily obstructed by the procedural tricks of highly paid lawyers, trial by media has come to be seen in some legal quarters as the only chance of securing a conviction, even if only in the court of public opinion.

This suggests the Italian state faces an institutional crisis as grave as its financial woes. The need for major structural reform, including an overhaul of the justice system, was recently highlighted by employers' leader Emma Marcegaglia in her punchy public critique of the government and the endemic problems of doing business in Italy.

Italian businesses and the country's economy are much the poorer for having a legal system that feels obliged to resort to unconventional measures to defend itself from a constant undermining of its foundations by those in power.

Sadly, a credible reform of the legal process will be virtually impossible while Mr Berlusconi remains in power, given the patent conflict of interest his myriad legal problems have created for him.

While waiting for reform, intercepts and the publication of their content will continue to fill the lack of trust between the judiciary and the executive. This places on magistrates and the media a duty of care in the way they deploy this tool. Used in isolation it may not be sufficient to convict the guilty. Applied in too cavalier a way, it can ensnare the innocent, ruining reputations. This is one more problem Italy could do without. But the alternative of an impotent judiciary and a gagged media is certainly worse.

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Silvio Berlusconi's attack on a free press belongs to the Mussolini age

By Adrian Michaels June 11th, 2010

A great number of people working in the Italian judiciary behave incorrectly. Convinced that they will never secure convictions of the rich and powerful, they habitually leak their entire investigations to newspapers, so at least to hang their subjects in the court of public opinion. It is a shameful way to ride over due process, no matter how much it may seem justified.

So I have some sympathy with Silvio Berlusconi’s attempts significantly to tighten up the rules on judicial surveillance, wiretaps and leaks, even if it once again looks like the Italian prime minister is putting the machinery of state to use in the service of protecting his personal interests.

But – and it’s a big but – Berlusconi’s attack on the journalists who print transcripts of telephone conversations or other such information from judicial sources is completely indefensible. By all means toughen penalties for leaking, but journalists in a free press operating in a post-Enlightenment Western world have a duty to inform. They have a duty to print what they come across, and to bring facts to light that are in the public interest. La Repubblica, Italy’s main Left-leaning daily and habitual foe of Berlusconi, has taken to pasting notes on its pages saying that under the new law certain stories would not appear. Its front page today(in the top left of the internet home page) is a blank and eloquent protest.

Benito Mussolini loved press censorship. He used to herd newspapers into the same buildings, the better to control what information came out. Berlusconi’s instincts seem authoritarian, not democratic. In fact he was recently bemoaning his apparent powerlessness and sympathising with a similar Mussolini complaint. It’s that sort of behaviour that scares me rigid, and reinforces the very ugly stench coming off this new legislation.

Adrian Michaels is Group Foreign Editor at the Telegraph Media Group. You can write to adrian.michaels@telegraph.co.uk and follow @adrianmichaels on Twitter.

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Italy: Wiretapping Bill Advances

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Published: June 10, 2010

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative government won a vote in the Senate on Thursday on a bill that restricts wiretaps and fines media organizations that report information derived from wiretaps used in criminal investigations before the case goes to trial. The bill, which now goes to the lower house for final approval, would require a three-judge panel, instead of a single judge, to approve a wiretap; limit the number of days for a wiretap; and require special authorization to listen in on priests.

A version of this brief appeared in print on June 11, 2010, on page A10 of the New York edition.

La prensa italiana se rebela contra la 'ley mordaza'

El director del diario 'La Repubblica', Ezio Mauro, considera la norma un "acto de violencia" de Berlusconi

MIGUEL MORA - Roma - 12/06/2010

Crece la protesta y la inquietud en Italia contra la ley que regulará las interceptaciones judiciales y su difusión, aprobada el jueves por el Senado ante el escándalo de la oposición, jueces y periodistas. La Repubblica salió ayer, tanto en la edición de papel y en la digital, con la portada en blanco "por primera vez en la historia de la información italiana", explica su director, Ezio Mauro. En medio, un papelito amarillo (convertido ya en símbolo de la revuelta: la gente se lo pone en la boca o en los ojos) decía: "La ley mordaza niega a los ciudadanos el derecho a ser informados".

Otros medios, como el canal televisivo de noticias Sky24 y el diario Il Fatto Quotidiano, colocaron franjas negras en señal de luto, mientras L'Unitàutilizó además una tipografía asociada al fascismo y La Stampa canceló sus espacios satíricos. Como Ezio Mauro, todos están muy preocupados por el futuro de la democracia italiana si la ley pasa tal y como está ahora el trámite de la Cámara de Diputados. "Esta ley es un acto de violencia de la casta del Gobierno contra la libertad de información", explica Mauro. "El vacío de la primera página blanca intenta explicar que el Gobierno quiere cerrar el circuito democrático a través del cual los jueces investigan, los periódicos informan y los ciudadanos se informan, y por tanto juzgan y controlan al poder".

La mayoría del centro derecha aduce que los medios y los fiscales abusan de las escuchas, muchas veces no relevantes para la investigación, y sin respetar la privacidad. Mauro ofrece una salida distinta: "Limitar la difusión de escuchas a las que son relevantes y deben ser públicas sería facilísimo: bastaría con que las tres partes, el fiscal, la defensa y el juez, decidieran cuáles se conservan y cuáles se destruyen".

"La norma no está inspirada en la defensa de la intimidad, como alegan sus defensores", añade el director, "sino en el miedo de la mayoría a que jueces y periódicos revelen los escándalos de corrupción. No estamos ante un problema corporativo, se trata de una batalla de libertad y democracia. El Gobierno quiere decidir qué noticias son importantes, la calidad, momento y cantidad de lo que publicamos".

"En ese sentido, es una medida muy coherente con la política de Berlusconi en los últimos años". Y agrega: "De una coherencia perversa. Quiere que todos los medios sean como sus telediarios: controlados y sin noticias".

Tampoco las actas judiciales podrán publicarse antes de que los acusados sean llevados a juicio, salvo en forma de resumen. Para escuchar a políticos habrá que pedir permiso al Parlamento y para interceptar a un cura deberá ser oído su obispo. La única solución que contempla la ley es coercitiva: la difusión se prohíbe bajo penas de hasta 450.000 euros para los editores, y hasta 30 días de cárcel para los periodistas. Según el director de La Repubblica, "las multas altísimas a los editores expropiarán la libertad a las redacciones de los periódicos para decidir lo que debe ser publicado, cambiando así el sistema de gestión de los medios".

Europa debe actuar. Y deprisa, dice Mauro. "No me gusta hablar de dictadura, pero si en el corazón de Europa, en 2010, un Gobierno decide qué y cuándo se publica, no encuentro definición mejor. El diseño autoritario de Berlusconi llegaría al culmen con esta ley. Debe ser frenada. Estamos hablando de desobediencia civil, de abrir webs en el extranjero para publicar lo que aquí se prohíba... Lo que hay que hacer es pararla antes de que sea tarde".

Los fiscales antimafia han rechazado el proyecto recordando que los delitos de los grandes capos se descubren interceptando a sus empleados, sobre todo a los que se encargan del lavado de dinero. El sistema ideado por el penalista del primer ministro, Niccoló Ghedini, permitiría interceptar a los silenciosos bosses y a los sospechosos de terrorismo, pero limita todas las demás escuchas a los casos que presenten "evidentes indicios de delito" y establece un nuevo límite máximo de 75 días. "Los ciudadanos deben saber que es su seguridad y la democracia lo que está en juego", concluye Mauro. "En la lucha contra la mafia y los delitos de cuello blanco, como ha dicho el subsecretario de Justicia de Estados Unidos, las escuchas son un instrumento básico".

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/prensa/italiana/rebela/ley/mordaza/elpepiint/20100612elpepiint_2/Tes

Berlusconi wins vote on wiretaps

By Guy Dinmore in Rome

Published: June 11 2010

Amid stormy scenes in Italy’s senate, Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government on Thursday rammed through a bill that would restrict the use of police wiretaps and punish editors and journalists who run transcripts.

The bill was passed in the senate on a vote of confidence that cut short debate on amendments. The text, which the prime minister says will not be modified, moves next week to the lower house where the ruling coalition has a large majority.

Senators belonging to the main opposition Democratic party walked out, refusing to vote, and members of the small Italy of Values party had to be evicted after occupying government benches.

Anna Finocchiaro, senate leader for the Democrats, called the bill a “massacre for liberty” and denounced the government for hiding what she called its private use of public money while treating the public as a “blind flock of sheep”.

The government says the law is needed to protect privacy. Last month the leaking of intercepts linked to an investigation into suspected corruption in the awarding of state contracts led to the resignation of Claudio Scajola, industries minister. He denied wrongdoing.

Mr Berlusconi too has had his private conversations splashed over the newspapers, most recently when he was overheard by investigating magistratesurging an official of Rai, the state broadcaster, to stop broadcasts of programmes attacking his government.

Under the law, investigating prosecutors can order wiretaps and bugging only if they have serious evidence of a crime committed. Approval by a panel of three judges is required for a limit of 75 days, while intercepting conversations of politicians and priests would have to go through a more rigorous procedure.

Anti-mafia prosecutors have lashed out at the bill. Although strictly mafia-related investigations would not be affected directly, investigators say many crime bosses have been discovered through the wire-tapping of others, particularly involving money laundering operations.

The US Department of Justice has expressed its concern that mafia investigations in Italy will be compromised by the law. Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia, a rival service to Mr Berlusconi’s media empire, has also attacked the proposed law.

The media would be banned from publishing transcripts or summaries of intercepts – a daily staple of Italian news – and would face restrictions on reporting investigations at a preliminary stage. Heavy fines of up to €450,000 ($546,000) and jail terms could be imposed on transgressors.

Franco Siddi, secretary of the National Press Federation, is calling for a one-day strike of journalists next month, while some reporters and editors have vowed to break the law.

Mr Berlusconi recently denounced the widespread use of phone-taps as imposing a “police state” on Italians. On Thursday, he demonstrated his disdain of the media by walking out of a joint press conference in Rome with Spain’s Jose Luis Zapatero, leaving a confused prime minister alone at the podium to take questions.

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Italie : le Sénat adopte une loi controversée sur les écoutes téléphoniques

LEMONDE.FR avec AFP | 10.06.10 | 16h52 • Mis à jour le 10.06.10

Le Sénat italien, dominé par la droite de Silvio Berlusconi, a adopté jeudi 10 juin, au cours d'un vote de confiance boycotté par l'opposition, une loi controversée limitant fortement l'utilisation des écoutes téléphoniques dans les enquêtes de la justice. Pour entrer en vigueur, la loi doit être adoptée dans les mêmes termes par la Chambre des députés, puis signée par le président de la République.

Selon la majorité de Silvio Berlusconi, cette loi est nécessaire pour protéger la vie privée des citoyens, qui voient trop souvent leur nom apparaître dans les journaux dans le cadre de fréquentes fuites d'écoutes. "Cette loi est une cochonnerie et la démocratie est en jeu", a pourtant tonné Felice Belisario, chef des sénateurs du parti d'opposition Italie des valeurs (IDV) de l'ex-magistrat Antonio Di Pietro. Des députés IDV ont dormi au Sénat en signe de protestation. "Vous voulez cacher vos affaires et l'utilisation que vous faites de l'argent public ; vous dites vouloir protéger la vie privée mais c'est pour que le peuple reste aveugle et ignare", a lancé Anna Finocchiaro, présidente des sénateurs du Parti démocrate (principal parti d'opposition), en annonçant le boycottage du vote.

Une des mesures les plus critiquées est celle prévoyant la limitation des écoutes téléphoniques à 75 jours. Ce délai peut être prolongé de trois jours en trois jours. Mais cette prorogation doit être approuvée à chaque fois par un collège de trois juges, un mécanisme complexe, critiqué aussi bien par la justice que par la police. De lourdes amendes allant jusqu'à 450 000 euros pour la publication d'écoutes téléphoniques dans les médias ont par ailleurs soulevé les protestations des éditeurs et des journalistes.

LOI ASSOUPLIE POUR LES JOURNALISTES

En mai, le gouvernement avait, sous la pression d'une partie de l'opinion et de la presse, revu en partie ce projet de loi. Le texte interdit également la divulgation dans les médias de tout acte judiciaire pendant une enquête et avant un procès, et les éditeurs de journaux qui contreviendraient à cette disposition risquent de lourdes peines : deux mois de prison et un maximum de 464 700 euros. Mais une première mouture de la loi prévoyait, pour les journalistes, une amende de 20 000 euros et un maximum de 60 jours de prison. Les parlementaires de la majorité avaient finalement accepté de réduire de moitié ces amendes.

Pour l'opposition, la majorité veut par cette loi museler la presse et éviter qu'éclatent des affaires comme celle qui touche actuellement le chef de la Protection civile, Guido Bertolaso, un protégé de M. Berlusconi, soupçonné de corruption dans l'attribution de marchés publics. Le scandale a déjà coûté son poste au ministre du développement économique, Claudio Scajola, accusé d'avoir en partie payé son appartement avec l'argent de Diego Anemone, un entrepreneur arrêté pour corruption.

Forcé de démissionner, le ministre s'était défendu en arguant que quelqu'un avait versé "à son insu" l'argent de l'achat, une ligne de défense qui avait à l'époque fait la joie des émissions comiques. En juillet 2004, il était devenu propriétaire d'un appartement de 180 m² avec vue sur le Colisée, pour, officiellement, 610 000 euros, un montant dérisoise selon les experts. Pour les enquêteurs, il aurait ajouté 900 000 euros "au noir", comme c'est l'habitude en Italie pour payer moins d'impôts.

ACHATS D'APPARTEMENTS ET PRESTATIONS SEXUELLES

Mais cette somme avait laissé des traces embarrassantes et, selon les enquêteurs, Claudio Scajola, à l'époque ministre pour la réalisation du programme du gouvernement Berlusconi, était l'un des bénéficiaires du système de corruption mis au point par un groupe d'entrepreneurs et de fonctionnaires. En échange de l'attribution de juteux marchés publics, ils offraient des faveurs aux personnalités politiques qui pouvaient leur être utiles. Faveurs sous forme d'aides pour l'achat d'appartements, la réalisation de travaux privés ou même des prestations sexuelles.

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Italian media protests over Silvio Berlusconi 'gagging law'

Silvio Berlusconi has moved to outlaw wiretaps, but this would hinder many high-profile criminal investigations.

Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters

Critics claim PM Silvio Berlusconi is merely protecting himself by imposing curbs on the publishing of wiretap transcripts

Tom Kington in Rome

The Guardian, Saturday 12 June 2010

Article history

Italian newspapers and opposition politicians protested today after the senate approved a bill limiting police wiretaps and punishing journalists who publish leaked transcripts.

As journalists threatened a news blackout to coincide with the bill's final reading in the lower house of the Italian parliament, the daily La Repubblica ran an empty front page with the message: "The gagging law denies citizens the right to be informed."

The Turin daily La Stampa also blanked out a front-page column, while Corriere della Sera called the bill a "dark page for lawmaking". Sky Italia aired a black banner of protest above its newsreaders.

The government measure, approved thanks to a confidence vote ordered by Silvio Berlusconi's government, would make it harder for police to get permission to wiretap suspects, limit the duration of the eavesdropping and fine publishers up to €450,000 for leaking transcripts of the wiretaps before cases reach trial, which can take years in Italy. On becoming law, the measure would be applied to ongoing trials.

Government officials argue that the police rely too heavily on wiretaps, and that transcripts featuring people unconnected to investigations often find their way into newspapers.

Maurizio Gasparri, Berlusconi's senate whip, said the measure would put an end to "trial by media".

Critics of the bill claim Berlusconi is merely protecting himself and his allies from being overheard. Details of the prime minister's calls to a state TV official urging him to give roles to his female acquaintances have been published.

Italy's union of newpaper editors said in a statement that the bill "does not attain the declared objective of protecting privacy, but has the simple effect of intimidating the press."

Magistrates have protested that their pursuit of organised crime would also be limited by the measure.

The opposition Italy of Values party said it could publish leaked transcripts on a party website to be based in Belgium, or simply read out the transcripts in parliament.

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Italian media protest at 'gagging law'

Friday 11 June 2010

Posted by
Roy Greenslade

Italian media are up in arms over a law curbing police wiretaps and imposing fines for news organisations that publish transcripts. Many journalists view it as an attempt by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to gag them.

The law, which passed a first hurdle with a confidence vote in the Senate yesterday, is hotly contested not only by most media but also by magistrates who say it will greatly hamper their fight against corruption and organised crime.

The left-leaning La Repubblica ran an almost blank front page with only a tiny "post-it" style yellow memo reading: "The gagging law will deny citizens the right to be informed".

Corriere della Sera called it "a dark day" for justice and L'Unita, paper of the largest opposition party, ran its headline with typeface that was used when Benito Mussolini ran Italy and controlled the media.

Berlusconi maintains that new rules are needed to protect privacy, but the opposition accuses the government of scrambling to cover up corruption.

The journalists' union has called a strike on 9 July and vowed "all-out, unending resistance".

The law carries penalties of more than €450,000 for publishers and up to €20,000 for journalists who flout the ban. Anyone who records or films without the approval of the person who is being recorded or filmed may also be jailed.

Only "professional journalists" (journalists belonging to the state-approved, corporatist Italian National Order of Journalists) would be allowed to record and film individuals without previous authorisation.

Sources: IPI/Reuters

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Private lives

Italy's gagging law

A controversial bill that should worry investigators more than reporters

Jun 10th 2010 | ROME

AMONG the consequences of Silvio Berlusconi’s long ascendancy over Italy is the numbing of his compatriots’ democratic sensibilities. That the most controversial bill before parliament is being fine-tuned at meetings chaired by Mr Berlusconi’s trial lawyer, for example, no longer even merits comment.

The bill, which was to be forced through the Senate with a confidence vote on June 10th, places sweeping restrictions on the conduct and reporting of criminal investigations. Its most obvious beneficiary is Mr Berlusconi. Last year he was embarrassed by a corruption inquiry that stumbled on evidence that he was hosting parties for large numbers of women, including call girls. One of them claimed to have recorded his pillow-talk; a magazine put her recordings on the internet.

Bad motives are one thing; bad law another. Something else to which Italians are largely oblivious is the routine trampling on the rights of suspects and others caught up in investigations. Information is selectively leaked to reporters before the accused come to trial, often creating a presumption of guilt that is difficult to reverse, whether in court or in the public mind. An example is the case of Amanda Knox, an American student, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, who were convicted last year of the murder of Ms Knox’s British flatmate. Much of what was published before the pair’s trial (heard by lay as well as professional judges) was irrelevant to the case. But it gave an impression of two young people lusting after extreme thrills. Since bugged conversations can be leaked, blameless citizens recorded talking to suspects can find intimate secrets released to the media.

Some restrictions proposed by the bill are considered normal in other countries. It bans the publication of the details of an inquiry until after an indictment, when journalists will be able to report the gist (but not the exact wording) of recorded conversations; it stops prosecutors commenting on investigations they are overseeing; and it restricts filming in courtrooms.

But Italy is not like other countries. It is notoriously corrupt, so politics and justice overlap. And its sluggish legal proceedings can take years to reach the point of indictment. Opponents of the law argue that it would have stopped many of the scandals that have moulded Italian politics from coming to light until they were irrelevant. But it can also be argued that prosecutors and judges would have been given a healthy incentive to speed things up.

Altogether less debatable are the restrictions the bill seeks to impose on investigation in a country where organised crime is rife. Wiretaps will require approval from a three-man panel of judges and become illegal after 75 days (unless the overseeing prosecutor obtains successive three-day extensions). The bill exempts inquiries into the Mafia and terrorism. But as judges, prosecutors and even conservative police trade unions have stressed, big successes against organised crime grow out of long, painstaking inquiries into more mundane activities like money-laundering and loan-sharking—which are not exempted from the restrictions.

A senior anti-Mafia prosecutor in Sicily has said that neither of Cosa Nostra’s last two “bosses of bosses” would be in prison if the law had been in force earlier. That is a warning Italy’s lawmakers should be taking more seriously than Mr Berlusconi’s right to keep his sex life private.

The Economist Newspaper | Europe

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La crocerossina che ha «colpito» il premier

A sinistra l'ufficiale della Croce Rossa che ha impressionato Berlusconi durante la parata del 2 Giugno. A destra Veronica Lario, l'ex moglie del premier

ALLA FESTA DELLA REPUBBLICA

Diploma e dieci giorni di selezioni,
la crocerossina che ha «colpito» il premier

Scelta per il portamento «che esprime dignità, decoro
e senso di appartenenza». La donna ha 46 anni

ROMA — Alta, elegante, viso luminoso. L'infermiera statuaria che ha strappato l’apprezzamento del premier e delle alte cariche sul palco durante la parata del 2 giugno è un’ufficiale della Croce Rossa. Diplomata infermiera volontaria del Corpo fondato nel 1908 e «selezionata dopo dieci giorni di addestramento» in caserma, così come solitamente accade con le crocerossine che partecipano alla Festa della Repubblica. E che si esercitano lungamente per la prestigiosa occasione. In questo caso, però, la consorella è stata scelta per guidare la compagnia di volontarie di scorta alla bandiera della Repubblica italiana. Su di lei, riserbo assoluto da parte della Croce Rossa. Restano le immagini che fotografano il suo passaggio davanti al palco delle autorità e il visibile apprezzamento del premier, Silvio Berlusconi (guarda). Apprezzamento accompagnato, racconta chi c’era, da un’entusiastica valutazione espressa anche verbalmente: sebbene non abbia ancora delicate missioni al suo attivo, i vertici della Croce Rossa l’hanno scelta per il portamento «che esprime dignità, decoro e senso di appartenenza». Il corso di crocerossina, va ricordato, equivale a due anni di accademia militare. Piccola nota di conforto per il pubblico femminile che l’abbia notata in una delle foto simbolo della parata: la signora ha già compiuto quarantasei anni.

Ilaria Sacchettoni

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