Vannacci’s assault on a Repubblica journalist. The press launch of the Editorial Committee

For the umpteenth time, through the presentation of Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s ebook, his colleague Matteo Pucciarelli grew to become the general public goal of ill-conceived irony on the a part of Roberto Vannacci, along with different personal and social invectives obtained from the overall himself and his supporters previously.

At this time, nevertheless, Vannacci is an election candidate in a authorities occasion, so he’s formally an all-round politician. It might be virtually ineffective to dwell on the tactic – some would say squad-based – of placing a journalist or journalist on the index, demonstrating idiosyncrasy in direction of the press, the fitting to criticize and the sincere account of the occasions wherein we discover ourselves. However the truth that a behavior is repeated shouldn’t make us desist from denouncing practices which have little or no to do with the foundations of a wholesome debate. This repeated mockery by a public determine with a navy command position and nice duty is sadly a symptom of the state of our democracy.

For our half, we are going to proceed to do our job which is to tell public opinion and denounce discriminatory phrases and behaviors in direction of the weakest, satisfied that journalism is likely one of the major boundaries in opposition to any authoritarian drift.