THe Italian judiciary may have been infiltrated over the years by members/supporters of the old pro-Soviet Italian Communist Party. I have seen references to this decades old infiltration, including that media, etc.
Remember, an Italian intelligence agent was accidentally shot by US troops in Iraq while he was getting out/smuggling out an Italian woman journalist who had “allegedly” been kidnapped by Iraqi extremists or jihadists.
Turns out that she was a correspondent for the communist party newspaper and I suspect that it was a staged kidnapping. She wrote friendly articles about the “resistance.”
Italians are great people but they are also among the most crazy of the western Europeans, a junior version of their wacked out cousins in Romania.
Also, one of the Spanish judges who has ruled against the CIA and/or in favor of jihadists also turned out to be member of the communist or Socialist Party (same difference).
As posters above have shown, there is usually much more to the story than what is written in what we are reading.
That is why there are great, knowledgeable posters here at FR to keep the media honest.
Yes. When people on FR curse the Euros for ridiculous positions they take, they should realize that countries like France and Italy had huge Communist parties for many years. The commies nearly took over Spain and Greece, and did run Portugal for a while. Those people didn’t go away. Nor did American commies and fellow travelers. Their children became the “New” Left, which now has one of their number in the White House.