Sensational clash in Milan over the pardon of Nicole Minetti: the director of Il Fatto Quotidiano attacks the General Prosecutor’s Office and announces complaints.
Guys, what a show. It’s been since the days of “What are you doing, are you kicking me out?” that I haven’t seen one so heated between people who in theory play on the same team. Gianfranco Fini And Silvio Berlusconi they wore the PDL t-shirt, but in that distant April of 2010 they revealed themselves to be sworn enemies on live TV.
Now there is no television watching the contestants, but the clash is still public, complete with the threat of ending up in court. Marco Travaglio And The Daily Fact on the one hand, Francesca Nanni and the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Appeal of Milan on the other. A violent quarrel, which began – coincidentally – with an outcome of one of the many trials against Silvio Berlusconi. It seems like we can see him, the Knight, laughing from up there, looking at one of his most bitter accusers, the former Torquemada in the public service of Michele Santorowho duels with one of the hierarchically most prominent magistrates of the Lombard court, announcing stamped papers and a lawsuit for defamation.
Marco Travaglio’s short circuit: the judiciary is only good if it agrees with him
Memorably, the one who, with paralegal language, calls the other a seller of lies, the other who responds by accusing the magistrate of not knowing how to carry out investigations and demanding an apology for the accusation of having published “untrue things”. It all begins with grace Nicole Minettiformer dental hygienist who, with Berlusconifirst he became the protagonist of the famous elegant dinners and then ended up as an advisor to the Lombardy Region. For the former, the judges sentenced her to two years and ten months in prison. For political activity, on the accusation of having used funds for personal purposes, they imposed another year plus one month in prison. In total, three years and 11 months, to be served by social services. However, in the summer of 2025, before the Surveillance court decided on the application of the sentence, the lawyers of Nicole Minetti they turned to Sergio Mattarellaasking for an act of clemency because the former hygienist and regional councilor, 15 years after the facts for which she was convicted, has now changed her life. In support of the request, the lawyers attach the minor’s medical records which, in the meantime, Minetti and the partner they adopted. The child needs care and “since he is being looked after by the Boston hospital” he cannot be separated from his adoptive mother. Furthermore, the former organizer of elegant dinners now lives between Italy, the United States and Uruguay, where she and her boyfriend have entrepreneurial activities.
The note from the Quirinale and the institutional clash in Milan
Mattarellawho has a heart of gold, is moved and, without playing the bass drum, grants the pardon. Laborwho learns of the gesture of clemency, instead of being moved, becomes agitated and begins to probe the private life of Minetti and companion arguing that the woman continues to organize elegant dinners, accompanied by women and substances. Following is a note from Quirinale who, frightened by the media backlash, asks the General Prosecutor’s Officewho had given the green light to the pardon, to reconsider the case with a supplementary investigation. And here is the prelude to the show, with «What do you say? I’m suing you.” Francesca Nannigeneral prosecutor of Milan who was responsible for carrying out the subsequent checks, writes a precise statement in which she says clearly that The Daily Fact published a series of lies, denying the accusations against Minetti. There are no investigations against him, neither here nor in Spain nor Uruguay, says the senior magistrate. There are no shadows regarding the adoption of the child, the mother abandoned him and made herself unavailable and the woman’s lawyer, who died in mysterious circumstances, was not the mother’s defender, but the child’s public defender. Not only that: in addition to having expressed himself in favor of the child’s adoption, the lawyer was not killed. In short, a denial across the board that risks undermining the credibility of the newspaper Labor and precisely on a battle topic of the newspaper, Berlusconi and its celebrations.
From the champions of judicial autonomy to stamped papers
And therefore, after having supported the independence, autonomy and the need to respect the sentences and the action of the judiciary, the director of Done from paper he passes to stamped papers, announcing a lawsuit. The war on robes, of course, is just beginning. Having no intention of accepting the liar’s license, Labor he sent his envoys to Uruguay to once again explore the life of Minetti and companion. Therefore, we will see some good ones, with protagonists, in addition to the aforementioned director, too Quirinale and court. A show. The press, the left and the judiciary loved each other so much. But now what Berlusconi is no longer there, everything has changed and even Beppe Salathe mayor over whose activity as Expo commissioner a rift arose between magistrates (the head of the Power of attorney wanted to dismiss, his deputy instead intended to prosecute: the dispute ended at Csm) says that robes are political. A clash that comes after the referendum on justice and that puts the judges in the dock is not the right, but those who until yesterday supported their independence, autonomy and authority.
How will it end? Well, if the lawsuit of Labor it will really be presented, it will be funny. The Knight, if there were, would clean the chair with his handkerchief and sit down to watch the show in the front row. As per Santoro.
