Brothers of Italy again against Report. The focus is on the "recurrent use of mafia turncoats deemed unreliable by the judiciary", with particular reference to the reports on the La Russa family and on the father of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whom she has not seen since she was a child.
«We presented a question to the CEO Roberto Sergio and the President Marinella Soldi to find out whether the recurring use of mafia turncoats judged unreliable by the judiciary, who after a few decades make revelations about alleged revelations about deceased people, is in line with what established by the Service Contract, which regulates relations between the State and Rai – we read in a note -. It happened in the case of the father of the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, and in the case of the father of the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who among other things, as everyone knows, broke off relations with Franco Meloni when she was still a child."
«Two journalistic reports in some ways mirror each other – we read again -: there is a repentant judged unreliable by the magistrates who after decades brings up a deceased person, and therefore not able to fight back, to indirectly attack political exponents. Furthermore, the decision was made not to give the public an account of the unreliability of the repentants interviewed, perhaps because otherwise the whole system of the theorem put in place would collapse. With what seems to all intents and purposes to be a 'method', we are witnessing the progressive degradation of a historic broadcast, once capable of carrying out real investigations, and now reduced to building theorems as an end in themselves, useful only for spreading mud . We hope that the CEO and the President will respond quickly and in substance to the points we have raised."
The response from Sigfrido Ranucci, curator and presenter of the Rai3 investigative program, arrived quickly: «Report, as is right, will respond on the merits in the institutional forums. But for the sake of truth it must be said that the first source on La Russa was not a repentant, but a Carabinieri officer Michele Riccio. While the second source, Nunzio Perrella, is a collaborator of justice never reported for slander and considered fundamental in the trials that led to the arrest of the Camorra boss Michele Senese".
Solidarity with Report comes from the leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein : «Meloni has surpassed Berlusconi: these attacks on the right of inquiry not even with the Bulgarian edict... We need to invent other types of edicts, I don't know if they are Hungarian edicts. These are attacks not worthy of a democracy."
«Here we go again – the comment of the exponents of the 5 Star Movement in the Rai supervisory commission Dario Carotenuto, Anna Laura Orrico, Dolores Bevilacqua and Riccardo Ricciardi -. The attack launched by Giorgia Meloni's party on Rai and on the Report program with a surveillance question after the episodes on Franco Meloni and La Russa jr confirms the government's aversion to independent journalism when investigations concern them . We will not go into the merits of the content of the services broadcast by Report, but we will limit ourselves to observing that there are constant interventions - unencrypted or hidden - on the Public Service and on information in general to limit the freedom of the press. And this is unacceptable, even more so if a program is attacked that represents the cutting edge of investigative journalism not only in Rai but throughout the Italian television scene , with its host forced to live under guard precisely because of his work. carried out in recent years. We express full solidarity with Rai, which starting from its top management has so far protected Report from the disorderly attacks of the government and the majority, and with the editorial team led by Sigfrido Ranucci, confident that they will continue their precious work without caring about such baseness".
(Unioneonline/D)
