Investigations

Ranucci, Rome prosecutors ask for a hearing in the Anti-Mafia Commission

Part of the hearing was sealed due to a question from Senator Scarpinato

by Lorenzo Pace

Ranucci, Floridia: "Fazzolari valuta azioni legali? Inopportuno"

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

The prosecutors of the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office, who are investigating the attack on the Report anchorman, Sigfrido Ranucci, have asked the Anti-Mafia Parliamentary Commission to acquire the journalist's hearing of 4 November.

What he said in the hearing

Ranucci, on that occasion, retraced the threats received in recent years after investigative services. From investigations into the massacres, to the infiltration of clans into contracts, the Moro case and the Mattarella murder. Finally arriving at those of 2024, linked to a report on Albanian and Mexican narcos.

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'I remember,' he said, 'receiving some messages sent at 5am 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 demanded dossier activities against me, even threatening actions against my person'.

Since the 16 October bombing, however, no other threat: 'I don't know what context to relate what happened', recalling, then, that the themes of the first episode, launched two days before the explosion, would have been 'the infiltration of the 'ndrangheta in the wind energy business and the massacres'.

In addition to recounting what happened that night. "Those parked outside my house," he said, "were gas-powered cars that, if exploded, would have brought down the building

The Secreted Part

And then the controversy. Because, during the hearing, Ranucci asked - after a question from former magistrate and Movimento5Stelle senator Alessandro Scarpinato - to close audio and video. "After an episode of Report concerning the Prime Minister Meloni," Scarpinato said, "you declared that you had been tailed at the request of the undersecretary Fazzolari: do you want to tell us more about this episode and let us understand if there can be a connection with what happened to you?

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 imply 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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