Romano Prodi has not yet apologized to the journalist Lavinia Orefici

In the whirlwind of videos, controversies, accusations, defenses, comments and nonsense, one fact remains: so far Romano Prodi has not apologized to the journalist Lavinia Orefici. Damato 's Scratches

I write about it reluctantly due to the discomfort I feel dealing with the "apologies" attributed by agencies and some willing newspapers to Romano Prodi. Who, reading the statements in quotation marks, however, was only "sorry" for the "mistake" in which he admitted having held a lock of hair from Rete 4 journalist Lavinia Orefici. From whom he had received an unwelcome question last Saturday about the controversy of the day regarding the Ventotene manifesto on Europe written in 1941 by the anti-fascist prisoners Altiero Spinelli, Enrico Rossi and Eugenio Colorni. Poster printed the previous week to be displayed at a left-wing demonstration in Piazza del Popolo. Of which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had then recalled some passages not in another madcap but in the chamber of the Chamber so as not to recognize herself, envisaging a united and free Europe only in words, having to go through a suspension of democracy and private property admitted or regulated on a case-by-case basis.

Other than article 42 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic which arrived in 1947, in force since 1948 and recalled, for example, by Pier Luigi Bersani last night in Lilli Gruber's television lounge to try to make it compatible with the Ventotene document.

“Private property – says the Italian Constitution – is recognized and guaranteed by the law, which determines the methods of acquisition, enjoyment and limits with the aim of ensuring its social function and making it accessible to all”. “Accessible to everyone”, I repeat.

But let's go back to Prodi, of whom Bersani, regarding his television reaction to the unwelcome question on Ventotene and its surroundings, spoke of him as "a grandfather" who had mistaken the journalist for a granddaughter, also given the "familiar gestures" claimed by the former prime minister in recognizing the "mistake" without apologizing for it, I repeat, but only to be sorry for it.

The three days or seventy-two hours that passed between that "gestural" excess, let's call it that, and the diffusion of the recorded images that forced Prodi to feel sorry, ceasing to deny having put his hands on the hair of the journalist who was too impertinent, provocative, uninformed and so on, speak for themselves of what information is also made of. Who took so long to make people understand and see the reality of what happened. And no longer pass off journalist Lavinia Orefici's protests as those of a liar or a mythomaniac. I won't write anything else because I believe that there is enough and more.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/romano-prodi-scuse-giornalista-lavinia-orefici/ on Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:02:27 +0000.