“We believe that Lavitola warned Ranucci about the risk of attacks before what happened on October 16. In fact, there was a meeting on September 7 during which Lavitola probably warned Ranucci of the dangers he faced due to possible attacks. This was therefore a month and a half before the actual attack.” This was reported by lawyer Arturo Cola before entering Rebibbia prison for a meeting with Valter Lavitola, the mastermind behind the attack on the Report journalist Sigfrido Ranucci. “We are interested in the facts: during the guarantee interrogation, my client denied that there was a prior agreement on the attack,” he added. Meanwhile, the controversy over the salaries of Report journalists heats up, with the figures published in the newspaper “Il Tempo” and the investigative newsroom journalists announcing a defamation lawsuit against the paper, calling the “figures false and misleading.”
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Lavitola warned Ranucci of the dangers he faced
“On September 7 there was a meeting during which Lavitola probably warned Dr. Ranucci of the dangers he faced due to possible attacks. This was therefore a month and a half before the actual attack.” This is confirmed by lawyer Arturo Cola, defender of Valter Lavitola, before meeting his client detained in Rebibbia prison accused of being the mastermind behind the attack on Report host Sigfrido Ranucci, in a statement aired on SkyTg24. “I am here today to talk with Lavitola and verify if it is necessary to supplement the confession of August 12 in view of the Review hearing which I presume will be held next week,” adds lawyer Arturo Cola before entering Rebibbia prison for a meeting with Valter Lavitola. “It is not about retracting or saying different things but simply about clarifying and offering an authentic interpretation of what has already been reported. This is possible because spontaneous statements can be made at the Review.” The hearing before the Review Court has not yet been scheduled. According to his lawyer, “there are two points” that Lavitola will have to “clarify” to the judges: “The first is the execution method of the attack and the second is the motive,” Cola explained further in a statement.
Fdi attacks Report over journalists’ salaries
The political controversy also explodes around the salaries of the Report newsroom journalists with the amounts on the show’s costs published by Il Tempo and which according to the Brothers of Italy party deputy Francesco Filini, the party’s group leader in the Rai Supervisory Commission, “reveal a shocking reality about the real costs of the ‘Report’ show.” “Far from being an internal production at ‘reduced costs’: we are facing – says the Brothers of Italy deputy – a real bleeding for the public service coffers and, consequently, for the pockets of Italian citizens. The numbers, in fact, speak clearly: in three years the costs for the fees of authors and journalists of Sigfrido Ranucci’s show have skyrocketed, rising from 2.2 million in the 2022-2023 season to over 2.9 million expected for 2024-2025.” “An exponential growth – Filini continues – which translates into literally pharaonic salaries for the top collaborators, with peaks exceeding 300,000 euros per year for journalist Giorgio Mottola (over 27,500 euros per investigation) and 228,000 euros for Giulia Innocenzi. In practice, journalist Mottola earns more than the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and more than double the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.”
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The newsroom reporters announce defamation lawsuit
However, the Report journalists announce a lawsuit against the newspaper Il Tempo and all outlets that will reproduce the published salary information: “The defamation campaign against the Report journalists today adds a new chapter: money. This morning the newspaper ‘Il Tempo’ published false and misleading figures passing them off as the salaries of the program’s journalists. The amounts indicated are incorrect and artificially inflated and do not at all indicate the individual remuneration of the reporters but include the total expenses incurred for the production of individual reports. Most Report journalists have freelance contracts with Rai and, based on the show’s production model, produce their own reports, thus paying out of pocket for travel, editing, and all other necessary expenses to conduct an investigation over months.” This is stated in a note by the Report newsroom journalists. “The amounts paid for journalistic services therefore only partly go to pay journalists’ fees, a large part covers expenses already incurred by the reporters – the reporters continue – Thanks to this production model, which shifts the direct costs onto the journalists and thus reduces them, Report is the least expensive investigative journalism show on Rai prime time, costing about 150,000 euros per episode, others in the same slot and on the same network cost twice as much. The desk editors were also lumped in, who certainly cannot be accused of taking pharaonic fees.”
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