Fabio Rampelli (Fdi), you are vice president of the Chamber. What do you reply to Liliana Segre?
“We listen to you with respect. You are, and will remain, a point of reference for all Italians. If anything, those who made those delusional statements are too many.”
That is, those young people from your party shown by Fanpage. What effect did they have on you?
«Anger, a lot of anger. In the 70s and 80s two worlds faced each other on the right: a brilliant and futuristic one and a reactionary one. Back then the nostalgics really existed. Many. They didn’t make jokes in the shadows. They made themselves recognisable. We faced them and defeated them by building a modern right. Fdi is led by those who have broken with those stereotypes.”
Is there a double register, smiling in public and nostalgic in private?
«Looking at those images it certainly seems so. A dangerous and unacceptable double standard. I prefer those of my generation, they said what they thought and tried to bring the right into the circle of extremism, out in the open. When they lost the match they looked for other movements where neo-fascism was palpable, understanding that that story was over with us. Game over”.
Ester Mieli says it’s not Fdi she knows. Is there any inkling possible?
«Mieli falls from the clouds from which we all fell. Those guys are on the wrong side and it’s right that they should be shown the door. Anti-Semitism and racism are incompatible with our nature, even before our project.”
What does he mean?
“Racism is the rotten fruit of homologation and we value identities. This right was formed in summer camps for children, in nights in tents with immigrants attacked by naziskins, distributing blankets and defending the Don Di Liegro AIDS Center from the assaults of the Roma well-led committees led by MSI exponents. It is respected for this. No one will bring it back”.
Meloni questions the undercover journalists. Why?
“You condemned the merit. But it is scary to know that while you are at home a journalist can peek through the keyhole. For months and months, waiting for the slip to nail “the enemy” “.
Schlein asks why the press is being attacked instead of hunting down those responsible for those behaviors. Is he wrong?
«Schlein would do better to deal with the contradictions and problems he has at home instead of spending his time “monstrosing” the right, inventing non-existent dangers for democracy and shouting about the return of the twenty-year period with hate campaigns. Meloni has strength to spare.”
But was it an attack on press freedom or not?
“Meloni, I repeat, has strength to spare. And she responded clearly from Brussels, where she was busy with other matters, that she does not want racists, anti-Semites and nostalgics underfoot. Having said that, it is clear that the Fanpage operation is not an example of textbook investigative journalism.”
You think so, it is clear. What is said in National Youth about the service?
«They are shocked and disappointed. National Youth is a healthy organization made up of culturally prepared leaders and militants. They have years of “hard work” behind them to break away from the stereotypes of the past, of dialogue with adversaries in search of generational unity beyond the right and the left, of social and civil commitment for the good of the community. They are the first victims of this ugly story.”
