by Cristina Rufini
That package containing personal data on Anna Ferraresi, at the time city councilor in Ferrara, regarding a criminal case for driving while intoxicated should not have been disclosed, and would have been processed illicitly by the then deputy mayor and now city councilor Nicola Lodi. Lodi himself falling foul of the crime of defamation. This is what the judge for preliminary investigations Danilo Russo claims in the order of compulsory indictment for processing of personal data and defamation, against Lodi. In simple words, he returns the documents to the prosecutor in charge of the file, Ciro Alberto Savino, so that he can formulate the accusation. Substantially accepting the opposition to the dismissal proposed by the prosecutor, which had been made by Ferraresi’s lawyer, the lawyer Fabio Anselmo.
The story. The legal matter revolves around the complaint filed by Ferraresi on 25 May 2020 regarding the episode that occurred five days earlier, when documents relating to the criminal proceedings against the councilor arrived in an anonymous envelope to the city councilors of Ferrara and to Ferraresi’s employer. , for driving while intoxicated (urgent investigation report and judicial police notes). In relation to this, the judge in the order underlines how “the fact that Lodi was in possession of the documents relating to the ongoing criminal proceedings can be said to be demonstrated”. An irrefutable conclusion for the investigating judge, who based himself on some statements by Lodi himself on social media, when on 5 April 2020, replying to Ferraresi who intervened on the supply of masks, he addressed her by referring to the ‘skeletons in the closets’ and telling her to ‘put the fiasco down’. Another comment on May 3, 2020 specifically refers to ‘drinking while driving’. And that “she would soon go back to counting for nothing”.
The belief. But there’s more. the judge underlines as reliable the testimony of Rossella Arquà, at the time still a municipal councilor of the League and very close to the then deputy mayor, who “claims to have seen the package containing the documents of the criminal proceedings against Ferraresi in Lodi’s hands… who had shown it to him and then put it back in a drawer.” In essence, according to the judge: “Arquà’s declarations find consistent and solid confirmation in Lodi’s own words. In concluding, the magistrate underlines that “it is equally reasonable to hypothesize that the author of the diffusion of the documents under discussion identifies himself precisely in today’s suspect… who does not know how he managed to come into possession (a rather disturbing fact) of the file relating to the crime”. Furthermore, the investigation file contains numerous accesses to the database relating to Ferraresi , between February and May 2020, by the police on what? It is easy to hypothesize that further investigation into who actually carried out those accesses could arise from this affair.
