Investigations into lawyers in Milan, warning from the Bar Association: no one should overstep their role
Giampaolo Di Marco intervenes after the Prosecutor's initiative on two lawyers: right of defense must not be limited
MILAN – “While the prosecutors are investigating lawyers, politicians are discussing how professions can be useful in the fight against the mafia. Everyone should do their own thing without overflowing their roles, without preventing everyone from carrying out their constitutional duties, both in the exercise of judicial power and in the right of defence.” Giampaolo Di Marco, general secretary of the ANF, National Bar Association, thus intervenes on the case that emerged in Milan which involved two lawyers for whom the Prosecutor’s Office had asked the Judge for preliminary investigations for precautionary disqualification measures; they were the defenders of a Turkish citizen, investigated, together with another, for various crimes. In particular, the lawyers were accused of receiving stolen goods due to the fact that, according to the Prosecutor’s theory, they had received sums of money from their client “for profit purposes”, compensation for their professional activity. Hypothesis rejected by the investigating judge. Case closed? Nope.
MONDO AVOCATURA CONCERNED: JUSTICE PROCEEDS, BUT NOT THROUGH THE MEDIA
The legal world has highlighted its concern over what happened. And Anf doesn’t let it go either. Neither the exercise of judicial power nor the right of defence, “two aspects of the democratic life of our country”, can be “limited”, but must “rather unite for greater strength. Solidarity with my colleague for the treatment received both on the judicial and media level. Justice can and must take its course, but not in a media form“, concludes Di Marco in a statement to ‘Dire’.