"Forty years ago, when I worked as a correspondent of the press and broadcasting of Ljubljana newspaper Delo, the Italian media were an example for me and my colleagues, we had a system of limited freedom. I can not say that the Italian journalism is still capable of inspiring the public and professionals alike. " Before the scandal and the investigation about the pressures on public television director by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Slovenian liberal MEP, Ivo Vajgl, speaks openly of political populism.
Yesterday, the gate-Trani arrived in Brussels: the wiretaps between Silvio Berlusconi, the former commissioner Agcom (authority for Communications Guarantees) Giancarlo Innocenzi and the Director General of RAI ( the italian public television) Mauro Masi were sent into a classroom of the European Parliament, translated into English, and accompanied by an animation video for an international audience. An initiative of MEPs IDV Luigi De Magistris and Sonia Alfano, who promised to forward the intercepts across Europe: "We brought these interceptions in Europe to warn of the risk that the EU is running: the attack on the freedom of information is not only an Italian case but it may spread like a virus across the continent, "says De Magistris, who along with Alfano firm promise:" We'll send this video with the intercepts across Europe to show the interference of political power in the information in Italy, one of the 27 EU member states. " Even Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, a Spanish Socialist, chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties in the European parliament, have said the case concerned Italian: "The pluralism of information is one of the founding values of the European Union. About the problems of information in Italy, Bulgaria and Romania to the European Parliament is important for the whole Union "
Also translated into another language, harsh invective of Silvio Berlusconi to a State Agcom have frozen the atmosphere in the classroom of Parliament, packed with people. Annozero, a popular transmission which always digest the leader of the party of love, had to be closed. At all costs. Even the animation video cushioned the effect of the incredible pressure on a guy who became a little smaller on the phone with the "big boss". Only hearing the insults in English, the international audience have made a smile in disbelief in front of an event that you think would never happen in a Western democracy: an EU country, in fact.
The meeting was attended by Antonio Massari, journalist and author of Il Fatto newspaper investigation conducted by the small Bari Prosecutor in March 2010. The story is well known: a plot to the extent possible between political power, information and monitoring bodies. Characters that have never had to talk to each other, not in these terms, at least. For months, the Prosecutor of Trani has listened in silence to the pressures of a Berlusconi "on the verge of a nervous breakdown" made - or rather, shouted - Giancarlo Innocenzi, AGCOM Commissioner, to intervene to close a program that dealt with the Mills case, the negotiations between the state and Cosa Nostra, the D'Addario case, short of news that should not be given. "Everything has been done to draw attention to the story, the attorney takes care of Trani, or on judicial leaks, while the scandal was in the pressure on Rai," said the German TV journalist Udo Gumpel. Not surprised, however, Loris Mazzetti, who in his long career, Rai, has seen some good. "Nine months later, nothing has changed: Annozero is still under attack and two of its most valuable employees, Marco Travaglio and Vauro the cartoonist, working for months without a contract," Massari complaint. Not only political event, but many boys and girls especially Italians came from Italy. As Valeria Grasso, 40 years, a small businesswoman from Palermo: "These interceptions are a novelty for me, I had never heard in Italian. Take them and talk in Europe is crucial in helping us to stay in Italy free and democratic. "
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