The Italian judiciary's
self-governing body or Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) has
begun proceedings against a Rome judge who verbally threatened
and insulted a traffic cop who gave him a parking ticket,
sources said Wednesday.
"I'm a Constitutional Court magistrate, you need to get rid
of this ticket," magistrate Pier Franco Bruno allegedly told the
traffic cop after the latter wrote him up for parking in a
no-parking zone.
When the cop refused to back down, the judge allegedly
proceeded to insult him, finishing off his diatribe with "this
doesn't end here".
Bruno - a magistrate at a branch of the Italian judiciary
that supervises the enforcement of sentences - offended the
cop's "honor and decorum", according to prosecutors from Italy's
supreme Cassation Court prosecution.
A criminal case against Bruno over the incident has been
shelved, sources said.
The CSM will meet April 17 to decide whether or not to take
disciplinary action against the judge.
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