The Council of Ministers, in a summit that lasted just 15 minutes, approved the decree law on justice, but left the measures regarding cybersecurity pending , unlike what was initially learned. As government sources explain, "further investigations" by the "competent offices" have been decided.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini did not attend, having returned to Milan for family reasons. And it was the last Council of Ministers for Raffaele Fitto, Minister for European Affairs, the South, Cohesion Policies and the PNRR, who will soon resign to take up the post of Executive Vice President of the EU Commission and Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms from 1 December.
The frictions with Forza Italia
Rejected twice at the last minute from the Council of Ministers' agenda, the measure, among other things, should entrust the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate with the power to promote and coordinate investigations into cyber crime . The decree - 12 articles according to the draft circulated the day before - bears the signature of the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, and contains a series of heterogeneous measures, including - for example - the initiation of disciplinary action for magistrates who do not abstain from proceedings "when there are serious reasons of convenience". A rule that has been heavily criticized by the judiciary, who immediately spoke of a "gag".
Article 8 provides for the new cyber law, a crackdown after the investigations in Milan and Perugia into unauthorized access to databases. Mandatory arrest in flagrante delicto is thus introduced for crimes of unauthorized access to a computer system of military interest or relating to public order or public safety or health or civil protection or in any case of public interest . And the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor will exercise the functions of impetus towards the district prosecutors for the coordination of investigative activities on these crimes.
