Napolitano to the magistrates: no protagonisms

The President of the Republic is trying once again to ease the friction between politics and the judiciary. The institutional clash has now become "sterile and intolerable". The day after the Chamber's authorization for the precautionary custody of Alfonso Papa, Napolitano issued a warning to the trainee magistrates. He invited the young togas to be inspired by criteria of "measurement and confidentiality", to take refuge from assuming political positions in their areas of competence, to hide their civil passions behind an "austere, reserved and partial" conduct. The head of state warned the trainees of the danger of "protagonism and exorbitant media exposure". Even the thorny issue of wiretapping has been touched upon. The president invited the use of investigative means judiciously, trying to ignore material that is not useful for the purposes of justice. Napolitano's appeal has the purpose of preventing the judiciary from losing its authority, questioned by a good part of the parliamentary arc, and from granting further ideas to its detractors.