After a first decision, taken by the Chamber of Deputies (on 16 March 1999), that the facts at issue in the criminal proceedings pending before the Magistrate's Court in Milan, were covered by Italian parliamentary privilege, the Constitutional Court, as the outcome of a conflict of powers, between the Parliament and the Court of Appeal of Milan, pursuant to Article 68(1) of the Constitution, annulled that decision finding that insults and acts of resistance and violence are in no way acts to which parliamentary privilege may apply
After a first decision, taken by the Chamber of Deputies (on 16 March 1999), that the facts at issue in the criminal proceedings pending before the Magistrate's Court in Milan, were covered by Italian parliamentary privilege, the Constitutional Court, as the outcome of a conflict of powers, between the Parliament and the Court of Appeal of Milan, pursuant to Article 68(1) of the Constitution, annulled that decision finding that insults and acts of resistance and violence are in no way acts to which parliamentary privilege may apply