The President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa announces complaints about the report which will be broadcast on Sunday 8 October on Report, the Rai3 program hosted by Sigfrido Ranucci, and anticipated in its contents by some newspapers. The title is “At the origin of the power of the La Russa” and, we read in the presentation of the report, “investigates the origins of the power and wealth of the La Russa family. And in particular the very close link with a controversial financier from Paternal, Michelangelo Virgillito , who from nothing had built a financial empire that would arise thanks to the assets of Jews forced to abandon the country due to the racial laws”. A note from La Russa’s spokesperson announces: “While waiting to see and carefully evaluate the episode of Report which will be broadcast this evening on Rai3, the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa has given a mandate to his lawyers to file complaints for aggravated defamation in against newspapers and media who have published and disseminated excerpts of far-fetched accusations and without having carried out any necessary verification. Excerpts of accusations provided to them by the same program hosted by Sigfrido Ranucci”.
The note underlines that “after almost two months of expensive searches and crews unleashed in various regions of Italy, not having been able to find even a shred of not only illegal but also just inappropriate activities of President La Russa, Ranucci and his companions have opted to desperately try to smear his father and his family – and this is the aspect that most infuriates the President of the Senate – with reconstructions that are completely different from the truth and seriously harmful to the honor of those, starting with the late Antonino La A Russian who would be 110 years old today, in his life he has never even been the subject of a warranty notice for any reason.”
In detail, we read in the spokesperson’s note, “Report ‘accuses’ the latter (Antonino La Russa, ed.) of having been vice-president of Liquigas after 1956, the company of that financier Michelangelo Virgillito (still praised as a benefactor of the Church and who never had legal problems) that Ranucci’s broadcast falsely accuses of an episode dating back to 1938. 18 years before President La Russa’s father met him. We repeat: 18 years before we met him! And again, Report always reports on a accusation of an unknown repentant, or at least unknown to us, according to which in 1994 Senator Antonino La Russa, together with his son Vincenzo, asked for votes in criminal circles in favor of… Forza Italia!”.
Prer La Russa would be a “circumstance which is already false and slanderous in itself – continues the spokesperson of the President of the Senate – it also appears impossible in light of the fact that Antonino La Russa had no longer been a candidate for years and his son Vincenzo (who had never been supported electorally by family members) was a candidate not with Forza Italia but with Casini’s UDC. And what matters most is that this circumstance never had any judicial follow-up, even minimal, nor was it ever contested by the interested parties who were only able to read it in a ‘little newspaper’ at the time of the facts.” “On the other accusations, from the call centers to the elected representatives of Paternò, up to the relationships with a member of a small bar bought to help the bartender, it will be even easier to be made accountable in criminal headquarters for all disseminators and serial slanderers. Starting with Report itself. We will watch this evening’s broadcast and then deal with fake news and shameful reconstructions in the ways that the law allows while being aware of the belief of impunity that accompanies this type of pseudo journalistic investigations.”
