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09 July 2020 "The assessment must start from specific and specific facts relating to magistrates currently in service. If factual profiles of this type should emerge, the offices will carry out all the necessary investigations within the annual term assigned to them".

Minister of Justice Alfonso Bonafede said so at the question time in the Senate on the case that broke out after the audio broadcast in which the magistrate of the Court of Cassation Amedeo Franco (later deceased) said that Berlusconi had been unfairly treated at the trial Mediaset. 

The case was born from the recently released audio, in which the judge Amedeo Franco, who died in May 2019, confided to Silvio Berlusconi that the sentence of conviction relating to Mediaset rights was a "dirty" carried out by a "firing squad".

"In general - the Guardasigilli said in response to a question by Davide Faraone (Iv) - the ministry carries out investigations tending to possibly request the exercise of disciplinary action by the competent institutional body responsible for this before the CSM, that is the general power of attorney at the Court of Cassation, the assessment must start from circumstantial and specific facts relating exclusively to magistrates currently in service. Should factual profiles of this type emerge in the regulatory framework just highlighted, the offices will make the necessary investigations in the annual term assigned to them. " Senator Pharaoh (Iv) proposed, in reply, the possibility of proposing a parliamentary commission on the issue: "If the ministry decides to do nothing and not take any action, parliamentary action becomes inevitable: we will also evaluate this opportunity".