Hacker investigation, La Russa: “Disgusted, it’s time to understand who’s spying and why”

“Surprised more than alarmed” and “disgusted by the fact that once again my sons, Geronimo and Leonardo, will have to pay for the ‘guilt’ of calling themselves La Russa if it is confirmed that they too were spied on”. Speaking in an intervention to Corriere della Sera is the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa.

The second of the State is among the public figures who ended up in the hacker network of Equalize, the investigation agency of Enrico Pazzali who would have drawn up thousands of abusive dossiers. “I have known Enrico Pazzali for years and I have always considered him a respectable person and I would like to be able to consider him, until proven otherwise, an old friend – explains La Russa – He is not from the Fratelli d’Italia area, and it is known that his current roles in the Fair does not depend on my party and even less on me. I never imagined that he could do something like this.

At the moment, he underlines, “the only thing I would like to know is who may have commissioned the dossier against my family. I don’t know why the mania for knowing everything about everyone seems to have exploded”. It’s time to understand, he adds, “who spies and why”.

“Two explanations generally come to mind. The first is that of relationships – says La Russa -. In this country, for some time, but today even more so, there has been a frantic search to have ‘relationships’ with people who they count not always for an immediate advantage, but to possibly prepare the field, or have doors opened.” But for La Russa, what contributes to creating a climate of suspicions and “personal” investigations is also “a certain type of investigations, of television broadcasts” which “construct theses and theories, stories which are sometimes based on nothing, but against which there is no right of defense.” La Russa does not say whether this dossier activity is connected to a type of investigative journalism but states that “the general climate is worrying, much more than the personal case. And it should worry everyone, not just those who end up under the scrutiny of people who do not understands who is controlling it.”