Rome, June 9 (LaPresse) – On the case concerning the pardon of Nicole Minetti, should magistrates have heard the masseuse who spoke about escorts and abuses at Cipriani’s ranch before later retracting her statements? "The Italian judiciary cannot issue a request for judicial assistance to Uruguay because it is not provided for by international treaties. This is a limitation that the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Milan has already explained very clearly. Moreover, the checks on the reliability of the statements have already been carried out by the Milan Prosecutor’s Office. And finally, what came was not even a retraction but a denial of ever having said the things that, according to that newspaper, she allegedly said. In our view, the case is now closed, although there remains the pain for a crude attack not so much on me but on the Head of State." These were the words of Justice Minister Carlo Nordio on the sidelines of his speech at the Forum PA in Rome. "Even a child would have understood that all this fuss had the President Mattarella as its target," Nordio concluded.