Four days before the European elections, a bomb exploded on the spokesperson of the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, Paolo Signorelli. Signorelli tendered his resignation after that “Republic” published some chats from years ago with the criminal Fabrizio Piscitelli, killed in 2019. Among the offending phrases were anti-Semitic insults and references to fascism.
The opinion of Enrico Michetti
“If the country today is in a state of maximum degradation it is precisely because values no longer exist. If there is no longer a limit between what is private and what it is public. During the fascism and the Communism, you didn’t have the freedom of the post. The mail was opened, everything inside was read and if it wasn’t right a trial was opened against you. There no longer existed privacy“.
According to the lawyer Enrico Michettinot only in the case of Signorelli was the principle of privacybut also the journalist’s ethics. “What is private must remain private because if I knew I was in public I probably wouldn’t say some things. How many journalists could have spoken badly about their employer?“.
According to Michetti: “Signorelli shouldn’t have resigned and they shouldn’t have made him resign. This is a great weakness of politics. The right is wrong because it has a theme and that is respect for privacy and the safety. The protection of privacy is a fundamental issue, because it is there that you register the freedom of your country. You cannot try a person in the media for a confidential conversation. This is an act of violence unheard of”
