Report, the Tar and Ranucci’s wrath: “They must come with the army”

“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.” It is clear Sigfrido Ranucci, host of the broadcast of Rai 3 who yesterday, after the sentence of the Lazio TAR which obliges Rai to give the lawyer Andrea Mascetti the documents relating to the news report concerning him in the context of the episode ‘Vassalli, valvassori and valvassini ‘of 26 October 2020, speaking to Adnkronos, branded the verdict as “very serious”. For Ranucci, in fact, the sentence “violates the Constitution, violates the freedom of the press. A short-sighted sentence that compares journalistic work to administrative acts” that “actually creates Serie A and Serie B journalists: those who work in the service the public cannot protect their sources, others can “. An “unprecedented attack, due to the weakness of the institutions in general and the de-legitimization of the policy towards investigative journalism”, he explained. And, he added, “the position of some newspapers smiling at the TAR ruling that requires fellow journalists to reveal their sources, as if freedom of the press were a football match, is also indignant. 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, also for them, “he promises. Read also Rai announces immediate appeal Rai’s reaction, which after the sentence announced that it had given a “mandate to challenge the Council of State the decision by which journalistic activity, where carried out by the Public Service, was unexpectedly assimilated to an administrative proceeding. Rai will take action in every location to guarantee its journalists the full exercise of freedom of information and the protection of sources “. Nobili-Ranucci knock and answer And via Adnkronos there is also the question and answer between Ranucci and the deputy of Italia Viva Luciano Nobili. “I am the son of a man of the police. For me the law is above all else. And the law allows me to protect the sources. And I will do it until my death. Nobili, rather, must be better informed. It is not the judge who asked for access to the documents, but a private person who asked for access to journalistic sources. Sources and journalistic activities that, if Nobili does not know – and this amazes me since he is a member of parliament and should know – are protected by the Constitution “, this is the comment to Ranucci’s Adnkronos after the words of Nobili, who harshly stigmatized the conductor’s unwillingness to reveal his sources, as well as defining the materials on which the reconstructions of Report. “Freedom of information is sacrosanct. But let a public service program deny documents to judges and threaten” send the army! ” It is very serious. We knew that Report does not respect the rules of good journalism, that it does not respect sentences is bad news “, Nobili had written on Twitter, adding:” I find it hallucinating that there is a journalist who proclaims the right not to respect the sentences. Citizen Ranucci must respect the magistrates and their decisions. The rule of law also applies to Report, the freedom to defame is not a right “.” Of doubt – replies Ranucci – there is only the dossier that Nobili has presented as a question against Report, certified by history as false. Question in which he revealed the sources of Report. This is his vision of press freedom. I do not reveal journalistic sources – Ranucci remarks – and Nobili should know well that even in front of a judge, a journalist can refuse to supply them. You study the Constitution and the law of his country which he shows he does not know. Nobles and freedom of the press are an oxymoron “.