Meloni was a "guarantor" in the last minute, but in reality, the magistrates over Almasri saved her: Berlusconi was nothing like her...
The Almasri case
In essence, Meloni is reiterating Berlusconi's old thesis about the red robes threatening him. Is the comparison reasonable?
Giorgia Meloni complains that the judiciary, or a segment of it, is working against the government and that the left, as usual, chooses the judicial route to oppose right-wing governments. The case in question is the government-facilitated escape of one of the worst criminals to appear on Italian soil in the last 50 years: Almasri. It's not influence peddling, it's something a little more serious. Essentially, Meloni is reiterating Berlusconi 's old thesis about the red robes threatening him. Is the comparison reasonable?
Let's see. The prosecutors' offices (perhaps the prosecutors' party) initiated around 100 legal proceedings against Berlusconi . They all came to nothing except one, regarding tax evasion by Fininvest. Berlusconi was not a director of Fininvest, but he was convicted and the director acquitted. A unique case in jurisprudence. Then one of the judges who participated in the trial declared: " It wasn't a court, it was a firing squad." Giorgia Meloni was not subjected to any legal proceedings. Berlusconi was expelled from the Senate on the basis of the Severino law . Meloni voted in favor of the Severino law. There are no records of her fighting against Berlusconi's exclusion from the Senate. The ministers' court requested the indictment of two ministers and an undersecretary and dismissed the case against Giorgia Meloni. Yet it's obvious that the crime, if any, must be attributed to Meloni.
I remember that in the case of Berlusconi (and Craxi ), the formula " he couldn't have not known" always applied. Not for Meloni. Why did the magistrates save her? Is it wrong to suspect it was to avoid a government crisis? With Berlusconi, things were the other way around. They were investigating him to bring down the government. Meloni's right-hand man, La Russa, recently called for the resignation of the mayor of Milan, who is under investigation for forgery of official documents. Not for aiding and abetting a hitman. Can you please tell us the exact day Giorgia Meloni became a supporter of the law?
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