Boccia case, the Senate says no to the use of chats between Sangiuliano and the businesswoman. The ex-minister’s lawyers: “We will give every proof to the court”

The Senate confirmed the vote of the junta for the elections and parliamentary immunities on the request of the court of ministers, responding negatively to the request to acquire the chats between the former minister Gennaro Sangiuliano and the entrepreneur Maria Rosaria Boccia. An armoring of the former Minister of Culture, in FdI quota, which sees the majority forces compact in the Chamber. In favor of stopping the request of the college for ministerial crimes at the Rome court, 95 votes were registered, against 58, none abstained.

“Full willingness to collaborate with the court of ministers and to provide any documentary evidence to demonstrate the absolute correctness of Dr. Sangiuliano”, declare the lawyers Silverio Sica e Giuseppe Pepelawyers of the former Minister of Culture who make it known that in recent days they have already forwarded, in recent days, to the court of ministers, “a note where they make their full willingness to provide, for example, Sangiuliano’s credit card statements from which shows that all the expenses were incurred personally and that no reimbursement was ever requested for them.”

In the early afternoon the council, chaired by the dem Dario Franceschinihad voted in favor of the report to talk (FI), which had posed the need to respond negatively to the investigators’ request, recognizing second-level fumus persecutionis against Sangiuliano. Already in the council the compact majority had expressed itself in favor of the report, while the oppositions were against it: Pd, M5S, Avs, Italia viva. On the merits, the court’s request relates to the acquisition of the chat, also to be able to evaluate whether the hypothesis of a crime present in the green light report can be recognized in them Angelo Bonellior the revelation of official secrets. It is therefore not a request, as usually happens to parliamentarians and ministers, aimed at authorization for judicial proceedings.

But as explained by the rapporteur Paroli “in the present case the evidentiary purpose of the seizure is not expressed with respect to the concrete configuration of the crimes prosecuted”, therefore “the indiscriminate acquisition of an indefinite series of data, as well as damaging the confidentiality of the suspect , does not appear finalized and functionally correlated with the demonstration of the hypotheses of crime for which proceedings are being carried out, also demonstrating in this case the disproportionate nature of the provision which gives rise to the plausible suspicion of the existence of fumus persecutionis of the second degree”.

A position shared by FdI and Lega, while the opposition, in a united way, expressed the need for the green light from the court. The correspondence “is a necessary and indispensable piece of evidence”, said the senator Anna Rossomando of the Democratic Party, speaking in the Chamber.