“With honesty and sincere I tell you that as long as there is this piece of M … I don’t speak with journalists. With affection”. Words of Giovanni Donzelli deputy of Fratelli d’Italia, recorded at the entrance of the Chamber of Deputies and published on the website of the newspaper. Phrases that the Fdi deputy addresses to Giacomo Salvini, journalist of the newspaper and author of the book “Fratelli di Chat” in which the background of the brothers of Italy are told through the internal chats of the party. The reporter replies: “Then, I’m leaving.” So Donzelli adds: “I understand that out of respect you don’t talk to me, but I until there is this piece of m … I don’t speak”. In the audio you hear the voice of another chronicler present: “Saying a colleague so you can’t, come on”. But Donzelli remains of his idea: “Exactly and therefore you offend yourself and don’t talk to me”. And then, responding to the journalist who asks him why, Donzelli postpones the question: “I don’t start discussing, we will talk about it in court”.
The reactions of the oppositions
Words that triggered the reaction of the oppositions starting from Italy Viva that, with the president of the senators Raffaella’s shirt Remember the words of Licia Ronzulli in the classroom against Renzi and declares: “This right does not have the sense of the limit. Solidarity with the reporter”. For the senator Pd, Filippo Sensi“the insults of Dongzelli“I am” unheard of and very serious verbal violence against a journalist like Giacomo Salvini. Solidarity, on the other hand this was and remains the figure of these people, a word has always defined them. Excuse me, they distance themselves. ” Barbara Floridia: “Giovanni Donzelli heavily insults the journalist Giacomo Salvini, and this would be the ‘institutional’ right of Fratelli d’Italia? No surprise: their true nature is this”, adds the parliamentarian of the M5S. “They hate free press, do not tolerate those who criticize them and react with insults and verbal aggressions. Donzelli, one who sitting at Copasir should supervise on the safety of the country, behaves like a neighborhood bully. Minimum union? HEYONE SOLD. But the problem is greater: this is the level of the Melonian ruling class. Solidarity with Giacomo Salvini, who only does, very well, he concludes.”
The intervention of other political exponents
For the secretary of Più Europe, Riccardo Magi, a border has been exceeded: “that brothers of Italy is allergic to freedom of the press is known. But that the deputy Dongzelli you arrive to insult a journalist from Daily fact, Giacomo Salvini, with insulting phrases, is the limit he should not have exceeded. Italy is not Putin’s Russia, where the press is enslaved to the government and where journalists are insulted, threatened and sometimes even killed. Donzelli and Meloni are made of a reason, “concludes Magi. The deputy of Italy Viva, Francesco Bonifazi, also speaks of the limit of the limit:” that Giovanni Donzelli had a relationship, let’s say, ‘casual’ with the sense of the limit, we know it well. The very heavy offenses addressed to the journalist Giacomo Salvini give us further confirmation “. To bring the case to the classroom, to the Chamber, the group leader M5s, Riccardo Ricciardi, thinks about it:” I believe that the limit has been exceeded when the vice -president of the Copasir and responsible organization of the first party of Italy says to a journalist ‘until there is’ this piece of M … I will not talk to the journalists …’. A politician who insults a journalist in a squadist and violent way is unacceptable. To Donzelli we remind you that if there is a journalist who makes his job because he reveals the secrets of a party, this is called democracy, it is he who must not reveal together with his friend of the state secrets and use them as a propaganda. We are exceeding the limit “, concludes Ricciardi by inviting” journalists with his back straight “to turn to Donzelli the phrase he pronounced. The president on duty intervenes Giorgio Mulè:” Any vulgar expression and any insult should not belong to the relationships between people, even more if they concern a deputy and a journalist, precisely because of the particularity and peculiarity of the functions they perform. We should all recover the sense of respect even in the forms, which is a pre -packaging for a civil confrontation “.