Rome, Jan. 16 (LaPresse) – ‘Millions of euro have been spent to complicate the work of the prosecutors and slow down the system that they wanted to speed up. A project that was born badly and that today only covers filings, the equivalent of a few metres on a kilometre-long route from the preliminary phase to the trial. Today, 50 per cent of first-instance trials risk improcedibility, since they will not be defined in the timeframe imposed by Cartabia. Maybe the Court of Auditors could investigate how much these delays are costing us'. This was stated by the Naples prosecutor Nicola Gratteri in an interview with Corriere della Sera, starting with the telematic process. Gratteri insists that the endowment of men and means ‘is the basis’: ‘In Naples, for example, 20 per cent of the administrative staff is missing, but the ministry says that a 10 per cent overflow will be equalised in all the Prosecutor's Offices. Can Naples and Bassano del Grappa be put on the same level?’. With regard to wiretapping, ‘Minister Nordio makes it an economic issue and the figures are enough to prove him wrong: in Naples, in one year, I spent 5 million to listen to criminals and this allowed us to seize, and therefore give back to the State, 600 million’. 'If there are abuses, those who commit them should be punished. The instrument should not be banned,' he points out, and the one on non-publishable ordinances is “another reform that was not needed, a democratic involution”.