“We often have non-positive effects, almost short circuits, between the information which tends to have the maximum number of elements to be able to fulfill a role of propulsion in the search for truth and, at the same time, the necessary confidentiality of judicial investigations and respect of the secrecy of the investigation". The President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, said this today in the speech held today at the Quirinale on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the law establishing the Order of Journalists.
As regards "relations between the press and the administration of justice", the Head of State made explicit reference to the "rather abrupt call of an important judicial office, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Siena, which is following the burning and complex investigation into the Monte dei Paschi, faced with the publication of news which he declared to be totally unfounded and which he also made clear the serious possible destabilizing repercussions on the markets, to the point of announcing or announcing measures for market manipulation and insider trading". And this, for the president, "is a delicate point of a very delicate matter".
Napolitano - who yesterday launched an appeal for clarity on the MPS case - also referred to the latest speech by the Minister of Justice, Paola Severino, underlining how the Keeper of the Seals has "said with great punctuality and seriousness what the problems to be addressed are: the problem of access and that of conditions that are guaranteed and objective, which are not entrusted, on the one hand, to the discretion of those who exercise economic power over the media and, on the other, to a condition of weakness of the aspiring journalist, which becomes a condition of fatal submission to blackmail and a sense of fatal precariousness and lack of prospects".
