"As a minister I would have reprimanded my undersecretary and would have removed his delegation from the Dap,
because an undersecretary who becomes aware of wiretaps made in prison cannot regulate them as blunt weapons for a party mate to use against another party".
Thus Claudio Martelli on the political clash born of the Cospito case.
Martelli was the Keeper of the Seals when the 41 bis was instituted in the aftermath of the 1992 massacres.
"It still makes sense today because there are hundreds of bosses being held."
In the case of an anarchist?
"Can we agree to discuss or repeal a law because there is a prisoner on hunger strike?".