The investigating judge Giuseppe Greco, of the Court of Cosenza, was attacked outside his home

They waited for him in the basement garage of the building in Cosenza where he lives. And as soon as he arrived, they appeared out of nowhere. Two men armed with clubs and wearing masks attacked Judge Giuseppe Greco, who serves in the preliminary investigations and preliminary hearings office of the Cosenza court. The attack occurred yesterday evening. Fortunately, the judge was not seriously injured, but concerns remain over the ease with which the criminals accomplished their mission. Investigations were immediately launched by the Cosenza Flying Squad, aimed at identifying the motive and perpetrators of the attack. Greco, during his professional career in the Cosenza judicial offices, has signed numerous restrictive measures against local criminals, particularly for drug dealing, extortion, and "return horses," cars stolen and then returned after a ransom is paid. He has also handled proceedings relating to the Provincial Health Authority in the investigation into fake temporary workers. Several sentences have also been handed down, as preliminary hearing judge, in trials of various nature. The Cosenza subsection of the National Association of Magistrates has expressed "shock and outrage" at what happened. A serious incident, the magistrates of the National Magistrates' Association write, "evidently representative of a subculture of violence that deserves public censure and criminal prosecution." After expressing "the full solidarity of the entire subsection" to their colleague, the Cosenza ANM takes the opportunity to emphasize that "such brutal incidents demonstrate how, in this particular historical moment, magistrates are exposed to constant attacks that tend to delegitimize their work and that in some cases, albeit sporadic, even border on violent physical attacks." In any case, even such serious actions, according to the National Magistrates' Association of the capital Bruzio, "do not intimidate or influence the exercise of judicial functions, which remain immune from certain needlessly demonstrative actions, unsuitable for exerting any form of pressure on individual magistrates or the entire profession."