"According to the Court of Cassation, the Open trial proves to be for what it is, that is, an absolute scandal. The Supreme Court, not defending them, has clearly explained five times that the work of the magistrates of Florence has broken the rules".
Senator Matteo Renzi said this to reporters
after participating at the beginning of the preliminary hearing on the Open proceeding leaving the courtroom
, where he was present.
"Despite this we are here", he added, "for years we will be in this trial.
Renzi is among the 11 defendants
for whom the prosecutor has asked for indictment.
"I was president of the Council of Ministers and therefore I respect the institutions", Renzi also said, while regarding his presence at the start of the preliminary hearing he added: "I will also be here at the next hearings compatibly with the calendar where possible . I'll be here to say very frankly that we are respecting the law. "
"The magistrates of Florence" on the other hand "have not respected either the Constitution or the law or the sentences of the Court of Cassation.
In a few years this affair will be in the manuals of judicial news
as an absolute scandal".
"There is a very high level defensive board - then observed the leader of Italia Viva -, extraordinary lawyers,
"The Open process will be very interesting especially for law students and for the young people who attend the judiciary school in Castelpulci, to say how important what is happening is".
The senator said this after attending the preliminary hearing of the Open trial, underlining that "it is time to say things as they are".
"For months, years there have been multiple, and repeated" judicial
"initiatives against me - he adds - and now I have chosen to write a book, of about 200 pages, which will be called 'Il Mostro' and will be released on May 10th
. you will find some evaluations. I think that whoever reads that book from the next day will have a different evaluation on what has happened in recent years in Italy not only in Florence ".
