Overview
- The Corte costituzionale declared the Camera dei deputati’ s conflitto di attribuzioni admissible on Tuesday, July 7, opening a constitutional review of whether magistrates bypassed parliamentary authorization.
- The court’s admissibility finding effectively freezes the criminal case against Giusi Bartolozzi and prevents the first hearing set for 17 September from going ahead while the Consulta schedules a public merits hearing after the summer.
- The Procura di Roma has accused Bartolozzi of giving false information in the Almasri affair and issued a decreto di citazione diretta to send her to trial, with the Tribunale dei ministri earlier calling her testimony “inattendible e mendace.”
- Separately, the CSM’s Third Commission approved a proposal on 25 June to place Bartolozzi fuori ruolo as a legal adviser to Minister Tommaso Foti, but the appointment still requires a plenum vote.
- The case raises a wider constitutional question about the Camera’s prerogative to decide on requests for authorization to prosecute 'laic' figures linked to ministerial acts and could change how prosecutors handle cases involving government officials, with a public hearing likely in October or November.