La Russa case or La Stampa case?
This controversy by the director of the newspaper "La Stampa", Massimo Giannini, conducted against the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, is embarrassing. Here because. The Scratches of Damato
It frankly didn't take long to foresee it. Attacked by the secretary and other members of the Democratic Party for his interview with the press on the liberation party and its surroundings, the president of the Senate contested the title "deliberately misleading". Which on the front page said yesterday: "I'm not celebrating this April 25".
To a specific question, Ignazio La Russa replied: “It depends. Certainly I will not parade in the parades as they are held today because there is not a celebration of freedom and democracy but something completely different, the prerogative of a certain left ”. And he remembered his institutional way of participating in the party, when he was Minister of Defense and went to deposit a wreath at the cemetery in Milan in front of the monument of the partisans.
But La Russa's protest, expressed for news agencies and other electronic sites, was rejected with the same procedure by the director of the press Massimo Giannini, claiming that he "did not mislead anything". The controversy finally resulted in an exchange of letters between the two published today on the front page of the historic Turin newspaper. In which, on the one hand, La Russa recalls episodes of intolerance, to say the least, which have frequently characterized the liberation feast in the square: to the detriment, for example, of the representatives of the Jewish forces who participated in the fight against the Nazi occupation of Italy , or Letizia Moratti's father when his daughter was mayor of Milan. On the other hand, Giannini, reducing the complaints complained of by the President of the Senate to "completely marginal" episodes, takes it out on "a bust of Mussolini" kept by La Russa at his home, inviting him to bother Giorgia Meloni from Palazzo Chigi to "throw it via ”together, substantially by way of liberation of the right which both represent from cultural and political dependence on fascism.
Yet in the same interview by Paolo Colonnello with the President of the Senate, conducted with a pressing but friendly tone deriving from the relations existing between them since one was a judicial reporter in Milan and the other practiced the profession of lawyer, the story of that "bust ”Is told in a way that suggests that the editor of the press has not read it, or did not want to believe it. Feel it re-reading with me the passage in which La Russa is described who, answering a question from the guest, accompanies him on a reconnaissance, let's call it that, destined to dispel the legend of his house transformed into a kind of fascist mausoleum, complete with bust, in fact, of Mussolini. “In fact – Colonello tells us – it is a small statuette of the Duce, with boots and hands on his hips, resting on a shelf in a dimly lit corridor”. The origin of which is thus reported by La Russa: “It is an object that belonged to my father, a person I adored, and that I inherited. Should I have thrown it away? He has always been in this corridor, together with a helmet of the Chinese People's Army and a Communist frieze from the USSR ”.
It is personally and frankly embarrassing for an old journalist this polemic of the sixty-year-old director of the Press conducted against the President of the Senate on similar grounds. A controversy, among other things, that derives from the curious conviction that the liberation of Italy from Nazi-fascism must be celebrated at an institutional level like that now in La Russa only by leading or in the middle of a procession, which I do not remember having never seen a president in office of the Republic or of the Senate. Therefore I wonder if we are more in front of a "La Russa case", denounced by the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta also in an interview with the Piedmontese newspaper in which the second position of the state is accused of being too "divisive", or a "case La Stampa ”, with all due respect, for goodness sake, to the historic newspaper of Turin and one of the most popular and authoritative newspapers in Italy.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/caso-la-russa-o-caso-la-stampa/ on Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:55:35 +0000.