Cappellini reveals the messages between him and the fixer. The left is increasingly embarrassed. Meanwhile, the men who planted the bomb ask to be heard by prosecutors and threaten further revelations
«I’m wrong or you wrote to me that Siegfried Ranucci did he ask you to carry out the attack on him?”. It’s 1.34 am on July 7th but the director of Republic, Stefano Cappellinihe’s not sleepy and is the first to ask himself the mischievous question that hovers over the torrid Italian August bank holiday today. Indeed, the question is posed directly to Valter Lavitolawith whom he is in a WhatsApp conversation.
The fixer has just written to him with Neapolitan kindness: «I think that after the interrogation they will arrest me. I really hope that having maintained relationships with me will not affect you, even if given your depth it would seem difficult to me. Unless you decide to ask me to carry out an attack on you too.”
The night message and the background of the political poll
At this point the doubt of Stefano Cappellini it would be more than legitimate, the turn of phrase leaves the door open to any interpretation, even the most surreal, of a Netflix TV series with a screenplay by Harlan Coben. But Valter Lavitola he denies it, as if the clutch had slipped: «Are you kidding? I wanted to tell you that if you want me as an attacker, I am now known.”
The question and answer constitutes the final part (the most interesting) of the journalist’s long reconstruction published yesterday in the progressive newspaper “to put some facts back in line, also to not let people with other interests and purposes do it”. At the center of the article, entitled «Lavitola, the poll for Ranucci as prime minister and the profession of journalist», is the story of the possible leap in category of Siegfried Ranucci as host of Reports to savior of the country, after having undermined Elly Schlein And Giuseppe Conte. Told by a witness.
The tables at Cefalù and the short circuit on the left
A scenario that Cappellini doesn’t believe (“For me it’s madness”) and underlines it to the arrested fixer, but he prepares some questions for an Italian survey on the chances of “Sig” becoming the new “very strong point of reference for all progressives”. He does this after knowing that too Paolo Mieli he was preparing something similar. The story with hints of a memoir has other interesting passages: the meeting at the Cefalù restaurant, the advice requested by Lavitola regarding the possible «descend into the field of a big player» and the reluctance in revealing who Mister «Lavitola maintained that only the comfort of the numbers was needed to convince this person to make the decision». Then the revelation and the rest.
The big question, however, is the last one: “Am I wrong or did you write to me that Ranucci asked you to carry out the attack on him?”. And if a similar question is legitimately asked by a friend from Cefalù, an authoritative representative of the left of struggle and government, the flag (even if interim) of mainstream truth, why on earth couldn’t the conservative citizen who already harbored skepticism about Garibaldi’s and one-sided television investigations of the conductor of other people’s consciences ask it with a touch of venom?
From TV investigations to the appeal to Brussels: the political boomerang
The ultra of the Curva Report today replies on social media that “it’s all a machination of the right” and defends his hero from suspicions and evidence. But he finds it hard to digest (unless he’s a grand prix idiot) that the white knight sitting on the new and old testament of journalism is also the crafty guy who “self-reviewed” his own novel by writing: “It’s a masterpiece.” Or he praised an enlightened farmer live, forgetting that he was the author of his program.
Even to the most short-sighted, the king appears naked and not because of the heat. The silence of the official left, until last week clinging to Siegfried’s jackets, resonates in the air like the Berlin Philharmonic. It’s hard to discover that the Superman of Rai 3 he actually wanted to send the leaders of the PD and of 5 Star Movement. With Lavitola humming «Bomba or no bomb, we will arrive in Rome», words and music by Antonello Venditti. And it is even harder to admit that the short circuit is entirely internal to the left. Ranucci, Cappellini, Mieli tableclothed by Lavitola. Of the series, in the evening we went to Monteverde.
To try to turn the inedible omelette around, the Democratic Party’s information officer, Sandro Ruotolowrote to the vice-president of the EU Commission, Henna Virkkunenasking her to be vigilant to avoid political interference (a clear reference to the request for Matteo Salvini to suspend Ranucci) on Rai’s editorial decisions. Since memory is a wonderful vice, it is worth adding that, after the attack, it was he who promoted a plenary debate in Strasbourg to impeach the government of Giorgia Meloni as a moral instigator, fueling the narrative of a liberticidal climate in Italy. Now the boomerang is back in the head of whoever threw it. With a note: it was Lavitola who was introduced to Ranucci in the usual restaurant Guido Ruotolohis brother. The primaries of the broad field could be organized in Cefalù. It’s always mixed frying.
