Melillo 'via abuse of office is vulnus to EU obligations'

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 25 - "The repeal tout court of the abuse of office would not comply with international and European law". Moreover, "it would represent a breach of the international obligations signed by Italy in terms of corruption with the Strasbourg and Merida Conventions". The first judgment is by the deputy head of Eppo, the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the Italian Danilo Ceccarelli. The second is from the national anti-mafia prosecutor Giovanni Melillo. Both weigh like stones on the cancellation of the crime, a source of concern for mayors, which Carlo Nordio is preparing to present to the Council of Ministers, after having also received the yes of the League in exchange for the commitment to a comprehensive review of crimes against the public administration. An intervention that will come just as the country with the PNR "is preparing to use huge resources" which are also the result of "taxes paid by citizens of other European states". This is the alarm launched by Melillo before the Justice Committee of the Chamber.
Melillo also drew attention to "the state of deep and widespread criminal conditioning of the conduct of the public administration". "It would be enough to look at the state of the administrations dissolved in 30 years for ascertained conditioning of mafia crime to touch the concreteness of the problems of the absence of any filter, control, prevention", said the prosecutor. (ANSA).