Yellow amendment Pagano (Ncd). Ok from commission, rejected from Orlando – ilVelino / AGV NEWS

The House Judiciary Committee approves it, the Keeper of the bowl. Much to herald the need to rewrite it in view of the landing in the House. It is a strange fate amendment Pagano (Ap) to the enabling law on criminal justice, approved by Commission II of the House. The amendment provides for imprisonment from 6 months to 4 years for the private recording or filming secretly another person. The measure, which has triggered reactions of the Movement five-star – convinced that the objective is to imprison journalists who publish intercepts “uncomfortable” – but was disavowed by the Keeper: “It is not the government guidance predict jail for anyone. The journalists have nothing to do, do their job, here you have to punish only those who make private recordings. ” And so the solution should be another amendment, the rapporteur Donatella Ferrante (committee chair), so as to explicitly exclude from the norm the legitimate exercise of professional activities. As in the case of the press,

in fact. But there remains the problem of timing, which has greatly exacerbated the climate, already strained after the publication of wiretaps between Matteo Renzi and the general of the Financial Police, Michele Adinolfi. In the coming weeks the government should enact it also changes the rules on the audience.