The San Marino scandal. “I, molested at the Palace” – Chronicle
He is accused by an employee of the Palazzo Pubblico of sexual harassment. One scandal unprecedented overwhelms San Marino. Because the accused is not just anyone, but one of the two Captains Regent of the small Republic a stone’s throw from Romagna. It is about Giacomo Simoncini who, together with Francesco Mussoni, will remain in office until Friday of the week, the day on which the mandate will expire, after six months of regency. The story dates back to the first days of this month. According to what was reconstructed and reported by a San Marino newspaper, the woman was summoned to Simoncini’s office in Palazzo Pubblico, the government building. There found the head of state intent on tinkering with the broken zipper of the pants and Simoncini would have insisted that the employee be the one to take care of it, and then strip completely naked. The employee immediately tells the incident to an employee of the Regency and the affair would then have been reported to the government. The woman then turned to a lawyer who allegedly informed the judiciary unofficially, announcing that she wanted a complaint the day after April 1, embarrassments to the highest institutional office in the Republic of San Marino.
In the late afternoon, the government takes the floor. “On the accusations made against one of the Most Excellent Captains in compliance with the rules – the law in which all the investigations are carried out, the direct person is required to clarify everything in compliance with the institutional rules. Institutional correctness requires the Captains to keep silence provided for by the regulations in force, which prohibits heads of state from expressing opinions and issuing declarations of any kind during their mandate, also in order not to incur, in turn, the crime of insult, that is, of offending the honor and prestige of the Supreme Judiciary “. The observations regarding the disputes “we are sure that they will be promptly presented by the person concerned as soon as the regency semester ends, convinced of the will to shed light and thus the affirmation of the truth will be favorable”.
To deal with the affair, before state courtaccording to the Titan system, it should be the Union of the Regency, a sort of people’s court established in San Marino in 1499. Three days before the end of the mandate of the Captains Regent, citizens can apply remarks on their activities at the Institute. If the conditions are found, it is possible to initiate judicial proceedings against the former head of state in this special court where the former captains will be judged for their work, on the basis of the appeals presented, for everything they have done during their mandate or they did not. He was summoned on an extraordinary basis in 1944 to judge the Regents of San Marino fascism.