“Judicial cynicism.” This is how Professor Ennio Amodio, one of the front-line lawyers during the Mani Pulite season, commented on the verdict of the former prosecutor Piercamillo Davigo, who, in an interview with Fedez on the Schamiso Selvaggio podcast, spoke about the outstanding suicides of people participating in judicial investigations Like Raul Gardini during Mani Pulite, he stated: “We must make things clear, the consequences of crimes lie with those who commit them and not with those who discover and suppress them.” Then he added: ” Of course I'm sorry… First of all, if someone decides to commit suicide, you lose them as a source of information.”
“We could speak of judicial cynicism,” Amodio repeated, referring to Davigo’s words, “to illustrate the thoughts of judges who see themselves as robots, as beings without hearts and without feelings, who see the defendants not as human beings but as abstract Judging figures that are derived.” from the rules of the code and not from what happens in reality.” For the lawyer, “the events of Mani Pulite taught us that when the judiciary operates like a hellish machine, the ignores the feelings of the accused, the trial becomes simply an instrument of oppression and not, as the Constitution states, a means “serving to impose the correct punishment or to ensure acquittal.” Furthermore, “is “It is very significant,” the lawyer added, “that the constitutional provisions prohibit repressive behavior against those under investigation and emphasize that the punishment is not intended to remove those who have made mistakes from the social consortium, but rather to bring them back into the social consortium. “Society with re-education”.