5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe
Conte on Tuesday accused Premier Giorgia Meloni's government of
subjecting Rome Chief Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi to
"institutional bullying".
The DIS department that coordinates Italy's intelligence
agencies has filed a complaint with prosecutors in Perugia
against the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office headed Lo Voi over
the leaking of a confidential report.
The case regards the publication by daily newspaper Domani of
information about Premier Giorgia Meloni's Chief of Staff
Gaetano Caputi coming from a classified document by the Aisi
intelligence agency.
It is alleged that Lo Voi's office received the document and
failed to take the necessary measures to prevent it from being
leaked.
The non-magistrate members of the judiciary's self-governing
body, the CSM, nominated by the ruling centre-right coalition,
meanwhile, have requested that transfer and disciplinary
procedures be opened against Lo Voi over the leak.
Tension was already high between the government and Lo Voi's
office after it put Meloni and some other ministers in the
register of people being probed over the case of Osama Almasri
Najim, a Libyan judicial police chief released by Italy last
month days after being detained in Turin on an International
Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.
Meloni complained about the move in a video posted online after
she received notification of it.
"It is unacceptable for a premier to use her power of
communication to make a video against an individual magistrate,
followed by a complaint from the intelligence services that is
under the premier's office," Conte said.
"Then a request comes from the non-magistrate members of the CSM
for the magistrate's transfer.
"What the premier's office is doing seems to me to be an act of
institutional bullying that must be rejected".
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