Meloni attack on judicial autonomy say CSM members

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 2 - Premier Giorgia Meloni attacked Italy's Constitutionally enshrined judicial autonomy in voicing astonishment at a Catania judge striking down parts of the government's migrant decree, ten members of the Supreme magistrates Council (CSM), the judiciary's self-governing body, said Monday.
    The 10 or so CSM members have so far signed a petition to protect Catania judge Iolanda Apostolico, who has drawn government flak for not having confirmed the detention of three Tunisian asylum-seeking migrants in a pre-removal centre (CPR), ruling the migrant decree illegitimate in several parts.
    The petition speaks of "fully fledged attacks on the autonomy of the judiciary' coming from members of the majority and even from the premier The document also censures the "serious professional delegitimisation" to which the magistrate has been subjected by government members claiming she is biased against them because of past social media posts against anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini and in favour of migrant rescue NGOs. (ANSA).