MASSAROSA. The cultural association Meglio di Ieri of Viareggio has filed a complaint for repeated insults received on Facebook, in particular on the profile of the criminologist Roberta Bruzzoneguest at the Manzoni theater in Massarosa last April 20th as part of the program of meetings organized by the Meglio di Ieri association with personalities such as the psychiatrist Alessandro Meluzzi, the journalist Francesco Borgonovo, the philosopher Diego Fusaro and, last in order of time, the journalist and writer Magdi Allam.
A few hours before the appointment at the Manzoni theatre, Roberta Bruzzone, under the post announcing the evening in Versilia, read comments from a self-styled Barefoot commentator in which the criminologist was asked why she accepted the invitation from an association defined as “conspiracy theorists” who during the Covid period “spread fake news” “doing business in a pandemic”. Faced with the reply – again via social media – from Bruzzone herself, the Barefoot Opinionist also reiterated the same concepts on his own page with the publication of links and comments of the same tenor.
As soon as Roberta Bruzzone realized that the situation was not easing, she notified the president of the Meglio di Ieri association, Daniel Griva, who turned to a lawyer. But by now those defamatory sentences had already been viewed by Bruzzone’s followers who have 737 thousand followers on the web.
«For this reason we filed a complaint for aggravated defamation in the press – highlights the lawyer Gianluca Pajatto – given that those repeated statements were not published on the Meglio di Ieri Facebook page, where they could have been promptly censored by the administrator, but on the profile of a very popular public figure. So as to prevent the association from having immediate knowledge of it and being able to respond. Now it will be up to the postal police to carry out the necessary investigations to trace the identity of the account holder.”
