Reporto, Ranucci: “Serious Tar sentence, we will not reveal the sources”

“The sentence of the Lazio TAR is very serious. It violates the Constitution, violates the freedom of the press. A short-sighted sentence that compares journalistic work to administrative acts. It is as if Ilaria Alpi had died of administrative acts. A sentence that creates in fact, Serie A and Serie B journalists: those who work in the public service cannot protect their sources, the others can. It is an unprecedented attack, due to the weakness of the institutions in general and the delegitimization of politics towards the investigative journalism. Report will not reveal its sources, it will not give the documents to Mascetti, we will not do it even when dead. They have to come and get them with the army. ” Thus the presenter of Report, Sigfrido Ranucci, comments with AdnKronos on the sentence of the Lazio TAR which obliges Rai to give the lawyer Andrea Mascetti the documents relating to the journalistic report concerning him in the context of the episode of Report, ‘Vassalli , valvassori and valvassini ‘, of October 26, 2020. “The position of some newspapers is also indignant – says Ranucci – who smile at the sentence of the Tar which requires fellow journalists to reveal their sources, as if the freedom of the press were a football match. It is the classic attitude of those who look at the finger instead of looking at the moon. Short-sighted colleagues who do not understand that today it can touch Report, but tomorrow it can touch them. But they can rest assured: we will continue to fight for freedom of the press until the end, even for them. If this sentence becomes final, but I do not think it is possible in the light of the latest judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, no one will ever write more neither to Rai nor to Report to report news or respond, because there is a risk that the TAR may then oblige the sources to be disclosed. On this I expect an intervention by the Minister of Justice, who is the custodian of the register of all journalists, unless there is the intention to create a register of Serie A journalists and one of Serie B with the journalists of the service. public. It is not right that a noble institution like that of the TAR be mortified by such sentences “.