After the physicist with millions of followers Vincenzo Schettini, the Rai 2 journalist Giancarlo Governi, the Premio Strega Emanuele Trevi, the writer Cristina Dell’Acqua returns to Lamezia Terme, on Saturday 25 May, at 6.00 pm, in the usual setting of the Palazzo del Episcopal Seminary, the cultural event «Il Sabato del Villaggio». This time the guest will be the journalist Francesca Scopelliti, who will discuss with the artistic director Raffaele Gaetano a sensational case of bad justice in which her partner at the time, the journalist and television presenter Enzo Tortora, was the protagonist. «Thirty-six years after the death of Enzo Tortora – declared Gaetano –, his companion Francesca Scopelliti will propose for our audience a journey through the letters that the famous journalist and television presenter wrote to her from the hell of the prison in which he had been unjustly locked up. Arrested in 1983 for Camorra association and drug dealing, the star loved by tens of millions of Italians lived in those days the nightmare of a justice stuck in the Middle Ages, promising to fight to the end not only to affirm his non-involvement in the accusations but also to denounce the aberrant living conditions of prisoners. Promise kept: Enzo Tortora will soon become the great political leader of the battle for fair justice.” Francesca Scopelliti was the partner of the well-known journalist and television presenter Enzo Tortora until the day of his death (which occurred in 1988) and, subsequently, she continued his battles for human rights and against bad justice, he who had been the victim of one of the most sensational news cases in the history of Italy. Journalist, Senator of the Republic, you participated in some specials dedicated to your missing comrade. you are president of the “Enzo Tortora” International Foundation for Justice. «Village Saturday» is promoted exclusively by private partners who have intended to link their names to a high culture event: Officine 109, Arpaia, Riva, Beat Group, Stirparo, Bar Roma, Paradiso Group, Casa Mastroianni, T Hotel, St. Patrik’s, Casimò, Mercadò, L’Ottica, Salumi del Castello. It represents an example of how entrepreneurship can generate positivity in a difficult area like Calabria.
