sabato 12 giugno 2010
SkyTg24 a lutto per la legge bavaglio sulle intercettazioni
SkyTg24 protesta contro la scandalosa legge bavaglio sulle intercettazioni con una banda nera posta vicino al logo del canale.
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.
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
Tom Kington in Rome
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.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/12/italy-media-gagging-law-wiretaps-silvio-berlusconi
venerdì 11 giugno 2010
Italian media protest at 'gagging law'
Friday 11 June 2010 Posted by
Roy Greenslade
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.
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
venerdì 4 giugno 2010
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
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.
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