ROMA. On the instruction of Minister Di Maio, the Italian ambassador to Romania asked the Romanian government for immediate clarification after the incident in Bucharest against the RAI journalist Lucia Goracci and her crew. The ambassador – according to what has been learned from sources at the Farnesina – expressed surprise and displeasure, and asked the competent Romanian authorities to investigate what happened. The Foreign Ministry had immediately activated the Italian embassy in Romania to intervene and allow the release of Goracci and his crew.
Lucia Goracci kidnapped with Rai troupe in Romania after interview with Senator No Vax Diana Iovanovici Șoșoacă
According to what has been learned from diplomatic sources, the intervention of the Italian embassy in Romania would have been providential for the release of Lucia Goracci and her crew, held for many hours Monday in a police station in Bucharest after being attacked in the office of a Romanian no-vax senator during an interview.
Meanwhile, the group of dem deputies today presented an interpellation to the Prime Minister, first signed by the vice-president Piero De Luca, to ask the government what urgent initiatives it intends to take to obtain a clear distance from the Romanian authorities and, above all , to ensure the safety and freedom of our journalists to exercise their profession in that country, as well as in any democratic country. “The attack and attempted kidnapping in Romania of the envoy Lucia Goracci and her crew are a very serious and unacceptable fact”, declares the leader of the Democratic Party Debora Serracchiani, expressing solidarity with the journalist and the operators of Tg1.
The parliamentarians of the 5 Star Movement in the Rai Supervisory Committee also moved: “We express our closeness to the Tg1 troupe and to the Rai journalist Lucia Goracci for the kidnapping and physical and verbal attacks that took place yesterday in Romania at the hands of a Romanian right-wing parliamentarian . A shameful episode that was solved only thanks to the intervention of the Farnesina and the Italian embassy in Romania which allowed his release. Lucia Goracci, together with her troupe, was simply doing her job. To her goes all our solidarity and our encouragement to continue in the wake of free information and public service ».