The Hearing

Ranucci in anti-mafia commission: 'Threats since 2010'. Then he asks for the sound to be switched off

The Report presenter speaks for an hour in the Anti-Mafia Commission. And asks to turn off video and audio for a question on under-secretary Fazzolari

by Lorenzo Pace

Ranucci in Commissione Antimafia a domanda di Scarpinato su Fazzolari chiede di secretare audizione

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

From investigative reports on the massacres to those, yet to be broadcast, on the infiltration of the 'ndrangheta into the wind energy business. In front of the Antimafia parliamentary committee, Report host Sigfrido Ranucci spoke for more than an hour about the attack in front of his home in Pomezia, near Rome, on 16 October.

Starting of course with that night, when the device - which 'was certainly not a firework' - exploded. "Those parked outside my home were gas machines that, if exploded, would have knocked down the building".

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No other threat after the attack

Ranucci reports that he has received no other threats since the bombing, which is being investigated by the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office. "I do not know to what context this attack can be traced," he adds, recalling then that the themes of the first episode, launched two days before the explosion, were "the infiltration of the 'ndrangheta in the wind energy business and the massacres". 

Threats since 2010

There are then the threats received from 2010 to date for investigations. From the investigations into the massacres, to the clans' infiltration of contracts, the Moro case and the Mattarella murder. Finally arriving at those of 2024, linked to a report on Albanian and Mexican narcos. "I remember receiving some messages sent at 5 a.m. from a lawyer - who also defended Pablo Escobar in Italy - who told me that he had been contacted by some members of a cartel who were asking for dossier activities against me, also fearing actions against my person".

Scarpinato-Fazzolari back-and-forth

One part of the hearing was sealed. The one after the question from former magistrate and senator Roberto Scarpinato: 'After an episode of Report concerning the Prime Minister Meloni, you declared that you had been tailed at the request of the undersecretary Fazzolari: would you like to tell us more about this episode and let us understand if there can be a connection with what happened to him?'

Thus, the reply of Giovanbattista Fazzolari: "I have always had a very low opinion of Scarpinato and I am heartened to see that mine was not an unfounded prejudice. I hope that, in his reply, Ranucci had the decency not to go along with Scarpinato's delirium and the intellectual honesty to retract the surreal accusation that he had made against me of having him followed by our services'.

'I did not insinuate a connection between him and the attack on Ranucci,' Scarpinato continued, 'but I limited myself to gathering some elements during Ranucci's hearing and then asking questions to understand what is well-founded and what is not.

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