From San Marino information – The publication of the ECHR ruling yesterday also had an echo in the Council, still busy at the beginning of the communication paragraph.
Furthermore, to discredit the affair, the appellant and her right to appeal to the Court, the government had referred to the membership of the appellant and her lawyer in Future Republic and the fact that the movement had raised the issue in the Council. On this the ECHR cut short: “the Government’s arguments are not only devoid of any relevance to their claim of abuse of the right to petition, but also indicate strong political tension at a national level”. Therefore focusing the decision on the merits of the violation of rights.
So she spoke yesterday in the Council Sara Conti by RF: “Another heavy condemnation has arrived from the European Court of Human Rights. We had said for some time that this affair was a democratic massacre and today the ECHR resoundingly agrees with us. We are not only faced with yet another international fool, but with a much more serious political fact, as clearly highlighted, among other things, in the Court’s ruling. The government’s attitude regarding these facts and above all the arrogant reaction it has had in the entire affair is deeply worrying. Instead of protecting the guarantees of the rule of law, the executive has preferred to endorse the persecution of dissent and the gag on freedom of expression is the failure of a government that uses the institutions as a personal shield”, concluded Sara Conti.
