On the day that Justice Minister Carlo Nordio intervened in the Chamber in the controversy between the government and the Catania judge to assure that "there is no clash between the government and the judiciar", the other branch of Parliament gave the final go-ahead to the Omnibus Decree on criminal and civil trials inspired by Nordio himself, with 100 votes in favor, 71 against and one abstention. The text intervenes on a variety of material, from combating forest fires to recovering from drug addiction, from health to culture, and from personnel in the judiciary to those in public administration. But the most important point probably remains that of wiretapping: Nordio's stated goal was to put an end to "media pillories", and the final text goes in that direction. In particular, it amends the regulation of the decree authorizing interceptions between persons present by means of the insertion of a computer interceptor, providing that in it the specific reasons that make this modality necessary "in concrete terms" for the conduct of investigations must be set out with "autonomous assessment". Furthermore, it limits transcription in the record "only" to the content of the wiretap that is relevant to the investigation, including for the benefit of the suspect. It is also specified that the content not relevant to the investigation cannot be transcribed even summarily and no mention of it can be made in the minutes and notes of the judicial police. According to Lega Senator Erika Stefani, "meanwhile, the inalienability of this means of seeking evidence has been confirmed," which, however, "must be balanced with what are constitutional rights". Particularly important, according to Stefani, are the novelties introduced "about the computer capturing device, the so-called wiretapping, and with regard to its use and disclosure as well", aimed at remedying "the big problem of wiretapping that then only risks feeding prurient curiosities".
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