Ruby, Boccassini: “It was not supposed to get to the trial”

“It was not supposed to come to the trial.” The former Milanese prosecutor Ilda Boccassini talks about the ‘Ruby’ trial, in which Silvio Berlusconi was involved, during an interview with La7. ” The problem was that at issue there was precisely the possibility of carrying out the trial. Everything that was used, the ad hoc laws and postponements was done because it was not supposed to arrive at the moment when it is said in the name of the Italian people ”. The former magistrate recalls that ” they never defended themselves in the trial; they defended themselves outside the trials by expanding the time, there everything was done to lengthen and create an obstacle to democracy, breaking down the law means that democracy dies ”. “I have not heard the siren song that too many colleagues have heard. Staying with your feet on the ground when they tell you that you are god on earth is not easy ” then says the former Milanese prosecutor talking about his life as a magistrate. ” most of the magistrates do their job – he concludes – but the advertising of some characters has determined the drift and the imitative syndrome ”.