Felts: “Pm who wants me in prison ignores the Consulta”

“Probably the prosecutor did not read the sentence of the Constitutional Court, otherwise he would not have made a similar request”. Vittorio Feltri said this to the Adnkronos, referring to the ruling of the Council against prison for journalists who are convicted of defamation, except in the case of real defamatory campaigns, in the aftermath of the request for conviction against him and for the former director of Libero Pietro Senaldi by the Catania prosecutor, in the libel trial for the title ‘Hot potato’, referred to the mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi in an article published in Libero on 10 February 2017. “Three years and four months of imprisonment plus a 5 thousand euro fine for me and eight months in prison asked for Senaldi? Such a request has never happened before – says the editorial director and co-director of Libero – I can think of many possible reasons on which I do not want to dwell, but in fact it is an absurd request, disproportionate and, even assuming that the crime was committed , certainly would not deserve a similar sentence: the Constitutional Court cannot ask for jail for journalists. The only suspicion that comes to me is that this prosecutor has not read the sentence of the Constitutional Court ”. “Now we await the sentence after the next hearing on October 5 – continues Feltri – But I repeat, there has been no defamation and I have never attacked the Rays, nor have we ever campaigned against her, also because whoever is the mayor in Rome, if it does not have waste-to-energy plants, where do you put the waste? The solution to dispose of them are wild boars, which should be rewarded. Besides, I don’t even consider the title of the article offensive … which referred to the tuber and nothing else. We are in the first instance – he concludes – and I hope that there is a judge who is not clouded by prejudice ”.