The Repubblica pillory is surreal, the indignation against the FdI pillories too
Reporting the content of judicial reports that theoretically (as usual) would be secret, for some days the newspaper Repubblica has been making a very serious accusation against the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni: that of having paid 35,000 euros in 2013 to a nomadic clan of Latina to buy votes and attach posters in favor of the party. The accusations are based on the “revelations” made by a collaborator of justice, Agostino Riccardo, before the Roman anti-mafia prosecutors. Meloni immediately denied the news, saying he was the victim of a “mud machine”: “I don’t do business with Roma, I don’t give cash in bread bags to a petrol station and in 2013, when we were campaigning, we didn’t have the money. I’ve never had a male secretary or a black Volkswagen: it’s a made-up piece of news that never happened”.
The alleged “revelations” of the alleged collaborator of justice, in fact, struggle to stand up from any side you look at them and to be aware of it seem to be the investigators themselves, who have decided not to ask the leader of FdI for any clarification. The editorial staff of Repubblica, on the other hand, has never doubts, which for over twenty years has been relaunching any allusion and hoax made by repentants or witnesses in search of notoriety and penalty discounts (from Spatuzza to Graviano, passing the famous tricks of Ciancimino on the State-mafia), regardless of the damage caused by this strange way of reporting. Meloni is just the latest victim of the media-judicial meat grinder. A pillory which, however, it must be remembered, in the past has often seen the participation of the FdI leader herself. For information, ask MEP Sandro Gozi: investigated in 2019 in an investigation born in San Marino, massacred in the newspapers (in particular by Meloni, who even went so far as to ask for the revocation of his Italian citizenship) and finally filed two years later in silence general.