Claudia Conte case, minister Piantedosi sues Dagospia. The reply: 'It's only journalism'

The caso Claudia Conte could go to court after Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi filed a complaint against the website Dagospia for the 'continuous, massive, serial and persistent defamatory campaign'. The lawsuit was filed in recent days with the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office by his lawyer Roberto De Vita. The editor-in-chief Roberto D'Agostino could be called to answer for the crime of aggravated defamation in the press.

The affair of the extramarital affair between Piantedosi and the writer and journalist Claudia Conte is going through the legal channels after the lawsuit filed by Roberto De Vita, the Viminale's lawyer.

According to leaks, this move would appear to be aimed at prompting the magistrates to investigate the alleged perpetrators behind the explosion of the case, who would have aimed to 'seriously damage the reputation and personal, professional and institutional integrity' of the minister. The lawyers accuse the website directed by D'Agostino of accusing Piantedosi of "illegitimately obtaining public appointments, including paid ones, and other public munificence" for the benefit of the 34-year-old.

Dagospia defended itself by saying that it was 'doing its job' and that theirs is 'just journalism' and relaunched: 'It should be Piantedosi who clarifies the perimeter of an extramarital affair that has never been denied, to dispel doubts and shadows'.

Piantedosi's lawyer, De Vita, explained that the decision to sue the editor was taken 'in relation to the continuous, massive, serial and persistent defamatory campaign, made up of narrative insistence and progressive amplification'. According to De Vita, the website would have published 'over 50 communication units in the space of a few weeks, including articles, relaunches, flashes, indirect quotations, photo captions and posts of the newspaper Dagospia and of the social networks related to it, which with incessant and unfounded statements, insinuations and allusions attributed to Minister Piantedosi that he had illegitimately obtained public appointments, including paid ones, and other public munificence to Dr Claudia Conte'. The result is alleged to be that of 'having engendered in public opinion the belief that he has subjugated his institutional function to alleged personal interests, thus seriously damaging his reputation and personal, professional and institutional integrity'.