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“Every judge who deals with migration today, or who will deal with it tomorrow, will practically ask himself whether it is convenient for him to continue to be an autonomous independent European judge or whether it is better to keep quiet and do as the government wants,” he said.
According to Italian journalist Saviano, who has lived under police protection himself for 18 years over his revelatory work on Naples’ Camorra mafia, Meloni is tactically consistent in targeting those who criticize her.
“These attacks outline a strategy,” he said. “The methods and objectives are the same, the only differences depend on the role of the people who from time to time must be hit, discredited, frightened and silenced.”
Saviano, a longtime critic of Meloni’s government, was fined for defamation in October 2023 after referring to the prime minister and Salvini as “bastards” over their migration policies.
“The message is that anyone who dares to control or even just contain the government’s action — either because it is their institutional role that requires it, or because as a simple citizen they believe that criticism of power is the salt of democracy — must know that, if they persevere, they will have a hard time,” he said. “Especially if they are right.”
More ‘insidious’ than Berlusconi
In his cautionary letter to colleagues, Patarnello compared Meloni unfavorably to late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, himself a frequent critic of the judiciary, describing her attacks on judges as “more dangerous and insidious.”
