Lollobrigida: “The attack on Signorelli was intended to hit the government”
“De Benedetti’s newspaper, on the other hand, spoke about a different person than a young journalist who hasn’t missed a Sunday in church for years, regularly goes on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, helps anyone in difficulty”: this is the latest gaffe by Francesco Lollobrigida who evidently does not remember that Repubblica passed into the hands of John Elkann for some time. He slipped it up in a post on social media to defend his spokesperson who was accused of anti-Semitism and who therefore resigned in the morning.
“Paolo resigned, so as not to further feed the meat grinder into which he had ended up. Even in the chats at his children’s school… Because it is clear that through him they wanted to attack the government… Because the serenity of his family is not expendable”. Francesco Lollobrigida dedicates a long post on Facebook, entitled “hatred, the pen and the pencil” to the resignation of his spokesperson, Paolo Signorelli, underlining that “as I have known him, he is a family man who loves his wife and his children. He has a clean criminal record and has two degrees. He works with dedication and professionalism.”
“Never – continues the Minister of Agriculture – I heard him, in recent months, say something out of line. His journalist colleagues have always spoken well of him and, perhaps now only privately, continue to do so.” “Certainly the things I read in the chats are unjustifiable but the context in which they were said is much more complex than how it was told. However, it is about his past which appears, to those who know the Paolo of today, much further than the mere years that separate it from what was reported in the newspaper on the day the electoral campaign closed”, explains the FdI exponent.
“You can find yourself in terrible situations without knowing it or wanting it due to the context in which you grew up or work. Especially if another Paolo Signorelli is your grandfather and you certainly couldn’t choose him… What’s important, however, is not having committed crimes and having had the courage to move on. But it’s not always like this. A newspaper – Lollobrigida insists – has published wiretaps which have no criminal relevance except, possibly, for those who disseminated them. As L’Unità has also well written. De Benedetti’s newspaper, however, described a different person than a young journalist who hasn’t missed a Sunday in church for years, regularly goes on pilgrimage to Medjugorje, helps anyone in difficulty”.
“He was an excellent press officer and will be greatly missed by his current colleagues,” Lollobrigida then says, thanking “those who had the clarity of mind not to be exploited by those who pulled them by the jacket between one demonstration and another of hatred against Israel. Everyone knows well – he claims – that anti-Semites must stay away from the Brothers of ‘Italy. Or – he raises – by Lotta Continua journalists who have defined us as ‘a nation of pigs'”. “Who knows, if WhatsApp had existed in the Seventies, what they would have found in their private chats to accompany the hatred that characterized their public writings… Or from the programs that host the nostalgics of the Red Brigades who killed Moro. With great respect for those who felt affected by Signorelli’s statements in private chats but much less for those who exploited them, I would say, from the electoral data, that these journalistic attacks – Lollobrigida counterattacks – do not lead to the result hoped for by those who plan them” “I have always chosen press offices without looking at political affiliation, as Vincenzo Bisbiglia, editor of ‘Il Fatto’ who worked for me for two years, could testify. Today – he concludes – I lose a precious collaborator… With the serenity as always we move forward”.
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