The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, clarifies that it was she who approved the Justice Minister, Carlo Nordio, to initiate a pardon procedure regarding the case of Mario Roggero.
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“Of course, I told him to go ahead, we must call things by their name,” says the Prime Minister in an interview with Corriere della sera, regarding the case of the jeweler sentenced definitively to 14 years and 9 months in prison for killing two robbers and injuring a third.
“One thing is the power to grant a pardon – Meloni adds – and no one has ever doubted that this prerogative belongs exclusively to the Quirinale, but this does not prevent the Minister of Justice from initiating the procedure.”
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Meloni: disproportionate sentence, consider stress and fear
“Who is able to judge the pain, trauma, stress, and fear of this man? And to all those who do so without the benefit of the doubt, I calmly say they are wrong, because everyone should ask themselves a few more questions,” says Meloni.
“But are we sure – the Prime Minister asks – that at that moment he was capable of understanding? Are we sure there is a way to measure with a clock or with the code in hand when a threat has ceased or not, at least for a man like him, who saw himself a step away from death, his and his family’s, twice?” In this context, she adds, “it is a mistake to believe that one can clearly distinguish” the moment when one was in danger from the exact moment when the danger ceased.
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