On April 21, I'll go under trial in Rome with colleague Francesco Bonazzi for three stories I wrote in 2017 on Italy security agencies bank accounts in Banca Nuova, sicilian subsidiary of failed Banca Popolare di Vicenza. Public prosecutors indicted us for State secret breach.
I risk a 10 years term conviction. I just did my job: for Il Sole 24 Ore,my at that time daily newdpaper, I tried to detect why Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BpVi) hadn't been properly checked by authorities for two decades, letting it go bankrupt.
Then I found that Banca Nuova (BpVi) had offices in the same building in Rome where an Italian security agency had an headquarter to spy on judges, politicians, journalists and where they produced secret dossiers to slag all public critics.
Then I found a sort of Banca Nuova bank account balance sheet. In a few years they had moved hundred of million euros. But those doca weren't covered by "Secret" stamps. They were normal banks transactions.
On a Friday night, Italian Italian prosecutors and police came to my newspaper and seized my pc, my cellphone agenda, all my email archive. In a few moment they froze tools I used for more than 15 years. They were looking for my sources.
I opposed my professional secret. They used my archive to try to find out my sources. I refused to tell them who they were. In that night, my private personal credit card had been turned off. They threteaned me they were ready to raid my home. I refused again to cooperate.
So, after 3 years inquiry, I'll undergo a trial. What they did (seizing my job archive) is forbidden by EU legislation and by many European Court of Human Rights sentences. But they did it the same.
I won't ever tell them who my sorces were. I'll shield them, whatever it takes.
I won't ever tell them who my sorces were. I'll shield them, whatever it takes.
If they will condemn me, I will appeal to European Court of Human Rights. There's a judge in Strasbourg. Non praevalebunt.
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