Rome, 23 July (LaPresse) – “According to the ANM, does my post about Mario Roggero incite hatred towards magistrates? It was a tweet in which I said that in Italy there is the law and there is also case law. As we have seen time and again, case law shapes the law, and that is all I was hoping for. I do not think that one of my tweets could endanger magistrates. I should be far more concerned when the ANM or certain factions within the judiciary attack me, given that we have long been accustomed to the behaviour of a certain section of the judiciary towards politics.” This was Defence Minister Crosetto’s comment on his post in which he expressed the hope that jeweller Mario Roggero – sentenced to 14 years and nine months for killing two robbers and wounding a third – would have “every possible avenue explored so that he can return home”, adding, amongst other things, that there is already “case law that interprets the laws to the point of distorting them”. ‘There are court rulings, and these rulings must apply the law,’ Crosetto continued on the sidelines of the presentation of Vittorio Emanuele Parsi’s book *Contro gli imperi* in Rome. ‘And case law can interpret it to some extent. But this was not a case of lese majesty. My respect for the judiciary is absolute. I have never sung or chanted slogans against magistrates at the Ministry of Defence’s premises. And as a magistrate, I would never have done so inside a court.”
Roggero case, Crosetto: “I have never chanted against judges”
Rome, 23 July (LaPresse) – “According to the ANM, does my post about Mario Roggero incite hatred towards magistrates? It was a tweet in which I said that in Italy there is the law and there is also case law. As we have seen time and again, case law shapes the law, and that is all I was hoping for. I do not think that one of my tweets could endanger magistrates. I should be far more concerned when the ANM or certain factions within the judiciary attack me, given that we have long been accustomed to the behaviour of a certain section of the judiciary towards politics.” This was Defence Minister Crosetto’s comment on his post in which he expressed the hope that jeweller Mario Roggero – sentenced to 14 years and nine months for killing two robbers and wounding a third – would have “every possible avenue explored so that he can return home”, adding, amongst other things, that there is already “case law that interprets the laws to the point of distorting them”. ‘There are court rulings, and these rulings must apply the law,’ Crosetto continued on the sidelines of the presentation of Vittorio Emanuele Parsi’s book *Contro gli imperi* in Rome. ‘And case law can interpret it to some extent. But this was not a case of lese majesty. My respect for the judiciary is absolute. I have never sung or chanted slogans against magistrates at the Ministry of Defence’s premises. And as a magistrate, I would never have done so inside a court.”
