«With Massimo Giannini and La Stampa. Solidarity, support and go ahead! ». The secretary of the Democratic Party writes it Enrico Letta after the accusations and the denunciation for “instigation to commit a crime and condemnation of crime” by Putin’s ambassador to Italy, Sergey Razov, against our newspaper.
«The Russian ambassador to Italy Sergey Razov today called a press conference to announce an inconsistent complaint to the newspaper La Stampa. Free to do so, just as Italian newspapers are free to be able to write and exercise their news and criticism work. This is the substantial difference between Italy, Europe, liberal democracies and Putin’s Russia, where citizens are arrested only because they call war a war or demonstrate with a blank sheet “, he declares the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova.
Carlo Calenda, leader of Action, he writes: «Solidarity with the director Massimo Giannini and Domenico Quirico. The denunciation of the Russian ambassador is not only grotesque but reminds everyone of Putin’s conception of press freedom. And any other freedom ».
«The complaint presented by Razov for incitement to commit a crime and condemnation of a crime in relation to an article published by Quirico in La Stampa is an unacceptable attack on freedom of information. I express solidarity with all journalists and with the director Giannini “, says the vice president of the EU Parliament, Pina Picierno.
But there are numerous voices that are sending messages of support to La Stampa. «Ambassador Razov who denounces a newspaper for incitement to crime and condemnation of crime is the best example of the fact that Russia has not understood democracy. Solidarity with La Stampa, the director Massimo Giannini and all the editorial staff and thank you for your work », he observes Read Quartapelle of the Pd secretariat.
Support and solidarity also from Italia Viva: “All the statements, all the things that are said and done on the communicative level by the Russian ambassador and by the various Russian sources of disinformation are part of the hybrid war that Russia is proposing against those who, obviously , he is fighting it hard, ”he says Gennaro Migliore, group leader of Iv in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House. “The lawsuit announced against the Press is an act of intimidation against a free newspaper, moreover also instrumental because that article was certainly not an instigation to kill Putin,” explains Migliore.
Among the centrists, Maurizio Lupi, president of Noi con Italia, observes: “The Russian ambassador has been in Italy for some time and should have understood that in our country the press is free, autonomous and independent. After the intimidation of parliamentarians with a letter from Foreign Minister Lazrov and the threats to our Minister of Defense, Guerini, now Russia, through its highest diplomatic representative, denounces a newspaper, La Stampa, trying to put him in the dock just because he does his job well, reports what happens in theaters of war and in the world and its journalists freely express their views. These are intolerable and unacceptable accusations and intimidation. Evidently Ambassador Razov is used to his government’s meddling in the press in his country. Know that this is not the case here and that, indeed, for free journalists a lawsuit from the Moscow regime is a medal to be pinned on the chest ».
Enrico Borghi, head of security of the Democratic Party and member of Copasir, commenting on the Russian ambassador’s complaint against the newspaper says: «What for dictatorships is an apology for crime, for democracies it is freedom of information. And we will hold tight, Mr. Ambassador! Solidarity with La Stampa and its director Massimo Giannini ». Filippo Sensideputy of the Democratic Party, writes: Unconditional solidarity with La Stampa, the director, journalists and journalists in the face of the umpteenth intimidation that will not move them, I am sure, an inch in the work of information without discounts that they do every day on the Russian invasion in Ukraine”.
Solidarity also from FNSI. «Among the absurdities and contradictions of the war there is also the initiative of the Russian ambassador to Italy, who invokes the principles of the rule of law, trampled daily by the government of his country, to punish the press journalist Domenico Chirico. The complaint filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome, destined to go nowhere because in the ‘indicted’ article there is nothing written about what the ambassador says, it only confirms, if needed, what it is the attitude of the representatives of the Moscow government towards journalists and their work ”, writes Raffaele Lorusso, general secretary of the National Federation of the Press.