Storm on Fratelli d'Italia, after what emerged from an investigation carried out by Fanpage and broadcast by PiazzaPulita, which three years ago infiltrated a reporter among the Milanese exponents of the party led by Giorgia Meloni, bringing out "laundry" systems to clean illegal financing and meetings with explicit racist, fascist and sexist jokes.
To carry out the investigation, the journalist pretended to be a manager ready to provide loans to obtain benefits for his business.
Entering the "tour", the journalist met Roberto Longhi Lavarini, known as the "Black Baron", sentenced to two years for apology for fascism, and then, through him, Carlo Fidanza, MEP and head of the delegation of the Brothers of Italy.
Then he had access to events and meetings of the electoral campaign for the municipal elections in Milan, in support of the candidacy for the city council of the lawyer Chiara Valcepina.
The same journalist, considered a manager, is also asked for funding: "The methods are: to pay into the dedicated current account. If, on the other hand, you need the opposite and it is more convenient for you to be black, you pay for the bar and with the black then it will cover other expenses, "Fidanza told the undercover journalist.
The "black baron" Javarini explains instead that he has "a series of washing machines" for the financing of the electoral campaign which he claims to have used several times.
During the meetings, the reporter was also able to film the reprimand comments on the center-right candidate for mayor, Luca Bernardo, with a hidden camera. And, in the same meetings, in addition to sexist comments, jokes about "blacks", Jews, migrants and references to Hitler's speech at Hitler's Munich brewery are documented, as well as sexist comments.
Longhi Javarini, furthermore, maintains, without mentioning names or circumstances, that he is part of "a transversal group, let's say esoteric, where there are several Masons. Then there is a whole line of Hitler's admirers, plus we have our own informal intelligence and security service, we have a network of former military ". A sort of organization that crosses the parties. "We - he says - have political contacts within the center-right, not only in the League but also in the Brothers of Italy and even Forza Italia".
The investigation provoked immediate political reactions. MEP Fidanza announced his "self-suspension" while the Milan prosecutor's office opened an investigation with the hypothesis of illegal financing of parties and money laundering.
"After seeing the service packaged last night by Fanpage and broadcast by Piazzapulita, I want to reiterate to my friends, my constituents and those of my entire party that I have never received irregular funding", he explained, adding that "no 'there has never been any extremist, racist or anti-Semitic attitude in me. "
"I consider it appropriate - added Fidanza - to self-suspend myself from every party role and activity in order to preserve the Brothers of Italy from instrumental attacks".
For her part, Giorgia Meloni commented: "I reiterate on behalf of the Brothers of Italy that in our movement there is no room for ambiguous attitudes on anti-Semitism and racism, for operetta paranazism or for relations with environments from which we are light years away, nor due to opaque attitudes on the level of honesty ".
The leader of Fdi also asked for the delivery of the entire shot from which the service aired was edited.
(Unioneonline / lf)
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