"Nobody can ask a magistrate to be a hero", but no judge can "scar" their memory, "muddying the credibility, prestige and honorability of the judiciary". "Those who barter their duty with careerist aims, those who sell off ideals for personal power, those who defile their role with business practices have only to be ashamed and apologize. They betray their function, their colleagues, the institution". CSM vice-president David Ermini said at the ceremony at the Quirinale on magistrates victims of terrorism and the mafia.
"I assure you, Mr. President, that the ethical brutalization of the judiciary has in the current CSM - said David Ermini - the most tenacious and unyielding adversary. To counter any current waste and maintain self-government in the wake traced by the Constitutional Charter our daily harassment is already now and even more in the months to come, in the full awareness that this is what the great majority of judges expect from us ".
"It has always been said that 'without memory there is no future', but I would like to reverse this adage and say that 'without future there is no memory'. If the judiciary deserves to preserve memory and memory of Nicola Giacumbi, Girolamo Minervini , Guido Galli, Mario Amato, Gaetano Costa and Rosario Livatino must start from their example, and on their sense of sacrifice, rebuild their own future and morality. He can do it, he has the strength. But he must do it now, he must do it immediately ". CSM vice president David Ermini said it in the ceremony at the Quirinale in memory of the magistrates Giacumbi, Minervini, Galli, Amato and Costa, killed 40 years ago by red and black terrorism and of Rosario Livatino the judge boy, who died 30 years ago for mafia hand. Ermini recalled the words pronounced by Livatino, on the independence of the judge, who is also substantiated "in his unavailability to initiatives and business, in the renunciation of any desire for assignments and prebends": "is the model to which each magistrate has the duty to get inspired. "