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Annoyed, no, because at 84, with all he has seen, it takes more to annoy Sergio Mattarella. Determined and a “steamroller” as he has rarely been seen in his two terms, yes. The Head of State closed the “Minetti case” yesterday. The keys had already been given to him by the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office, with the report and documents transmitted to the Quirinale via Minister Carlo Nordio. These are the papers in which the magistrates wrote that from the investigations carried out at the request of the Presidency, “no facts emerged that contradicted the already acquired evidentiary framework.” However, the final act was needed, and it arrived with a note from the Presidency of the Republic, stating that Mattarella “has respectfully acknowledged the conclusions of the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office, according to which there are no reasons for a re-evaluation of the clemency measure adopted.” Amen.

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If this was now taken for granted, the rest of the note, in which the Quirinale explains the criteria used, is not. It is a rigorous institutional communiqué, there are no explicit references to anyone, but those who have followed the matter closely can quickly decipher a text containing at least four very strong passages. Dedicated to Il Fatto Quotidiano, and not only. The first is where, “for correct and authentic information,” it is recalled that “for over eleven years,” i.e., since February 3, 2015, the date marking the beginning of Mattarella’s first term, “when a request for clemency is accompanied by the favorable opinion of the competent judicial bodies, the President of the Republic habitually grants clemency, without being influenced by considerations extraneous to the humanitarian purposes of the clemency.” This means that “humanitarian purposes” are the only thing that interests the highest office of the State.

The humanitarian issue had been explained by the offices themselves when the news of Minetti’s clemency became public. The granting of that act of clemency, an April 11 communiqué explained, “was also based on the serious health conditions of a close minor family member of Minetti who requires special assistance and care, at highly specialized hospitals.” This, Mattarella warned yesterday, is the only thing that truly matters to him. Not the “extraneous considerations” expressed in newspapers and on television (especially in La7’s militant programs) by the many who criticized him for that decision. If for him clemency is right from a humanitarian point of view, it is regardless of any political consideration anyone might make: these are “reasons” he does not heed.

Second key passage: “For the clemency decree in question,” yesterday’s note reads, “the Quirinale did not deviate from habitual behavior.” Should it have acted differently in this case, because the clemency concerned a woman who had been close to Silvio Berlusconi? Certainly, many on the left think so. Some commentators have written and said on television: the Knight and those who shared part of his adventure deserve differentiated treatment from institutions. However, this is not how Mattarella understands his role.

The third passage is dedicated to the theorists of the “Mattarellian-Berlusconian” conspiracy. Which is laughable just to think about, but Il Fatto explained the “great secret” with which Mattarella granted clemency to Minetti as follows: a particular procedure, chosen so that the people would not know about the favor done by the Head of State to the former friend of the founder of Forza Italia. The Quirinale demonstrated that everything was done “without any unusual secrecy.” It did so using numbers: “In the presidential term underway for over four years, 42 clemencies have been granted: for 12 of them, a communiqué was issued making them known, while no communiqué was issued for 30 cases.”

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The “great secret”, in short, has been adopted in over 70 percent of cases. Why? Because this is how it is done every time the granting of clemency is linked to “sensitive data – illnesses, family events and relationships, involvement of children, and other delicate aspects – which must be duly protected from forms of disclosure.” The fourth point concerns precisely the obligation to maintain confidentiality on this data: “The Presidency of the Republic observes the prohibition of their dissemination.”

This prohibition, however, does not only concern the Presidency, but anyone involved in communication, starting with the media. Many of them, in an attempt to dismantle the reasons for granting clemency, disclosed every detail, including the name and pathology, of the Uruguayan child that Minetti and her partner, Giuseppe Cipriani, adopted. The message is simple: here, individual rights are respected, unlike those who resorted to every means to discredit Mattarella’s decision.

As for Nordio, he considers the matter closed since Wednesday, but yesterday, at the end of the Council of Ministers, he was asked to return to the topic. He replied that the attack against the Quirinale was made of “fake news”, thanked Mattarella (who in turn had thanked him) and the Milan magistrates. As for the opposition that had called for his resignation, he invited them to reflect on the fact that criticism “becomes almost ridiculous if it is based on the credulity of certain insinuations, which were proven, as was evident, to be completely unfounded.”

The Minister of Justice must now decide the amount of compensation to be sought in court from Bianca Berlinguer, for the episode of È sempre Cartabianca in which Sigfrido Ranucci, as a guest, reported that one of his “sources” had seen Nordio himself at Cipriani and Minetti’s Uruguayan ranch. A hoax for which Ranucci apologized, but the host did not. The amount, it is understood, should be between 10,000 and 50,000 euros. To be donated to a child welfare organization.

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