"There's also a bit of mafia, a bit of freemasonry inside Rai": these are the words of Sigfrido Ranucci in an intercepted conversation republished today by La Verità, which leads the newspaper with the journalist explaining: "it's from within that battles are fought."
For the members of Fratelli d'Italia on the Rai Supervisory Commission: "The words of Sigfrido Ranucci reported today by La Verità, according to which there are freemasons and mafiosi in Rai, are extremely serious. These are very grave statements made by an executive against his own company, which cast disturbing shadows over Rai."
"In the face of these declarations, one of two things must follow: either Ranucci comes out into the open and publicly denounces the presence of freemasonry and organised crime in Rai, or the Company must protect itself from these defamatory accusations, which are gravely damaging to its image, by taking action against the presenter. It goes without saying that Rai is a state-owned company and therefore the reputational damage inevitably reflects on Italy itself. We believe that given the seriousness of these statements, clarity must be established immediately," they concluded.
Unirai Figec: 'Ranucci should report what he knows'
"If the statements attributed to Sigfrido Ranucci in the alleged chat published by the daily newspaper 'La Verità' were true, we would be faced with an extremely serious matter," reads a statement from Unirai Figec. "Claiming that there are 'mafiosi and freemasonry' in Rai cannot be dismissed as a private outburst. If an investigative journalist of Ranucci's calibre is genuinely aware of facts this grave, he has a professional and moral duty to report them to the competent authorities and to tell citizens about them with the rigour he has always claimed in his own work. If, on the other hand, these were statements lacking any basis, then they would be offensive towards the thousands of Rai workers who every day carry out their duties with seriousness and honesty, and in that case, Rai Audit and the Order of Journalists should intervene with the tools at their disposal."
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