Justice, Gratteri alarm on the Cartabia reform: “50% trials will be unacceptable”

“50% of even serious trials” will not be celebrated with the Cartabia reform and the new statute of limitations. The alarm was raised by the prosecutor of Catanzaro, Nicola Gratteri, heard by the Chamber’s justice commission. Gratteri expressed the fear that “the 7 maxi trials that are taking place in Catanzaro as the law is expected today will be declared inadmissible”, specifying that the trials that risk not being celebrated concern not only mafia crimes but also those against the public administration. Read also “If I cut 50% of the trials, such as robberies or serious crimes against the public administration that will no longer be celebrated on appeal and in the Supreme Court because given the number of magistrates only trials with prisoners will be held, all the others will go in the queue “, therefore, explained the prosecutor of Catanzaro” all the crimes against the PA will no longer come on appeal and this is a great social alarm and will concern security. And we also think of the robbers or drug dealers “. “The fact that we launch these alarms is not for a personal reason because the judges will work much less, they will no longer have the anxiety of running, it is a fact of security, of credibility of the State”, reiterated Gratteri. “In terms the concrete consequences will be the decrease in the level of security for the nation, given that it is certainly even more convenient to commit a crime, he explained referring to the impossibility of prosecution envisaged by the new rules, after the predetermined times for the appeal and the Supreme Court, respectively two years and one year. “Setting a trap with such a short term means not ensuring that everything is analyzed with due attention”, he added, underlining: “At this point it would be better to go back to the rules on the prescription of the crime as they were before of the Bonafede reform, would cause less damage “.” There is an erroneous approach at the basis of the reform, the idea that the excessive time taken for the Appeal and Ca is related to the low productivity of the judges “he continues. “All the statistics attest that Italian magistrates, even those of higher degrees, are the most productive in Europe, those who conclude the most proceedings and write the most sentences – recalled Gratteri – The judgments in Italy last longer due to the number of judgments that Italian magistrates have to face compared to their European colleagues. In Italy every year twice as many appeals are made as in Spain and triple in France. For the Supreme Court the numbers are 10 times higher than those of other European countries “. “Establishing a maximum time limit in appeals will therefore not lead to faster judgments – he underlined – but only to the termination of a very high number of proceedings and the cancellation of the quality of work”.