Assault on the editorial office of the Stampa. 30 people identified. Solidarity from Mattarella and Meloni

"It was about a quarter of an hour, all caught on camera. The thing that hurts is that they are young guys, basically all young guys. So it's something that hits you twice. Also because we are a totally pluralist newspaper, which welcomes everyone's voices, so the impression is really that of blind violence, which doesn't know what it's doing. An unconscious violence, hopefully not manipulated, certainly manipulable. That's kind of the point of this story'. This was stated by the director of La Stampa, Andrea Malaguti. "Sad is actually the right word for how I feel," added Malaguti, "in the sense that we have extraordinary colleagues every day, who do their work with absolute seriousness. We have never worried about the things they say that guy likes or guy doesn't like. We worry that they are true, that they are serious, that they are verified. We know that every day there is someone who tells us 'you are communists', the next day someone who tells us 'you are fascists'. We are just professionals - an editorial staff of extraordinary quality - who try to do their best, their job in the freest way and with the greatest attention to respect for everyone. For us, the only point of reference is the Constitution. Everything else makes us smile enough: the labels, the T-shirts, the evaluations of those who do not know us. Everything is, unfortunately, also part of these times when aggression seems to be the only possible declination of confrontation. It is not ours'. 'If they needed a real confrontation in which we look each other in the eye and say things, but very willingly when they believe - adds Malaguti in reference precisely to the young protesters who broke into the newspaper headquarters - Our job is exactly this stuff here, to look people in the eye and confront them, including them. It is clear that for us the only insurmountable limit is the one they unfortunately crossed, namely prevarication, violence and threats. This is all stuff that cannot belong to any kind of civilised confrontation. If the point is to discuss things: when they believe, when they want, that's fine, we are always available. If the issue is instead to smash everything, I'm not even going to say how stupid that is. Among other things, it is counterproductive for them, because any cause that relies on forms of violence ends up being, as it were, outclassed by the aggressive dimension, so it loses its sense of self in real time'. In the meantime, work resumed normally in the newsroom today. "Among other things, the editor-in-chief, John Elkann, is also coming to the editorial office tomorrow,' announced the editor of La Stampa. 'Let's take stock to reiterate what our role is, the sense of our job, the perennial need for pluralism and freedom that we claim

Commenting further on the raid, Malaguti added: 'It's like when thieves come to your house: you go inside and see the devastation, something you don't understand, that really puzzles you. The nice thing was to see afterwards that all the colleagues came one by one, because they wanted to see what it was like, what condition their house was in, and that was nice. So I was struck by the immediate bipartisan solidarity that came from the Quirinal to Palazzo Chigi, from Elly Schlein to Conte, from police chief Piantedosi. Now I'm forgetting countless: I've only been replying to messages of closeness and solidarity for twenty-four hours. So one does a lot of thinking about this. On the one hand, what is happening is obviously very worrying, because it gives you an idea of how much the social fabric is unravelling; on the other hand, the ability to react in a unified manner on the part of the entire constitutional arc makes you think that perhaps we still have shared values after all, which actually allow us not to be overwhelmed by rubbish like this. That's the good part of it'.