Salis and Giannini, the sleepless evening between the digital anklet and the police –

Luigi Frasca

25 maggio 2024

Massimo Giannini complains to Otto e mezzo that he was woken up at 4 within the morning by the police to inform him of a defamation lawsuit. Ilaria Salis, the instructor detained in Budapest, after being free of hand and foot shackles, now complains concerning the digital anklet which doesn’t permit her to sleep. The 39-year-old Italian accused of aggravated assault in opposition to two neo-Nazis for the clashes of 11 February 2023 on the event of the “Day of Honour” arrived in courtroom in Budapest two days in the past for the third listening to of the trial in opposition to her. For the primary time Ilaria, who reached the courtroom by taxi collectively together with her mother and father, was delivered to the courtroom with out handcuffs and chains on her ankles however with an digital anklet. She was launched from jail after 15 months and was granted home arrest till the tip of the trial.

Whereas the previous director of La Stampa declared: «Two months in the past in Milan, recent from an episode of Fazio, wherein I had given essential opinions with respect to this majority, I went to sleep within the lodge – he mentioned – and at 4 within the morning 4 cops woke me as much as notify me of a defamation lawsuit. At 4 within the morning”, reiterates the journalist who then explains that he requested the police the rationale for the urgency of this notification. “It is performed, it is customary observe”, the officers responded. «However it’s the observe when you must catch a drug trafficker, not when you must notify a grievance to a journalist», is the reply from Giannini who then mentioned he’s satisfied that there’s «little doubt» that there’s a political director behind it: « Somebody gave orders to the officers to inform a grievance at 4 within the morning within the lodge, simply as that they had given orders to the Digos – he added – to determine the lodger at La Scala who had shouted Lengthy reside anti-fascist Italy, simply as they gave orders to take and lock three journalists in cells for an hour.”

And once more “with every thing that represents dissent with respect to this majority, this coalition and the occasion that leads the federal government – he concluded – the truncheon, the intimidation, is adopted”. Open up heaven. For Nicola Fratoianni, chief of the Italian Left, «we even missed the notification of the defamation lawsuit at 4 within the morning within the lodge. What Massimo Giannini revealed through the Otto e Mezzo program is the additional, umpteenth and worrying affirmation {that a} dangerous local weather is being created on this nation, with a drift on the a part of sectors of the state equipment that have to be corrected as quickly as attainable . We’ll ask the Minister of the Inside to account for this in Parliament, as a result of there can’t be shadows of this sort with related episodes within the motion and conduct of the establishments”.