The Bureau integrated by the representatives of the groups, in the meeting that has just ended, decided to transmit the photographic material already in possession of the Commission and broadcast last night in the program 'The State of Things' to the District Prosecutors who are investigating as well as to instruct the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Siena, with the collaboration of Lieutenant Colonel Adolfo Gregori, former consultant of the Commission, to proceed with the identification of the subject on the telephone who appears on the left side of one of the photos taken in Via dei Rossi near Vicolo Monte Pio on the evening of 6 March 2013". This was announced by Gianluca Vinci, president of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the death of David Rossi, during the communications at the end of the meeting of the parliamentary body's Bureau.
The former president of Banca Mps Giuseppe Mussari has filed a complaint with the prosecutors of Rome and Florence for slander, aggravated defamation and revelation of official secrets, in the context of the affair of the statements made before the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the death of David Rossi. The complaint is directed, according to what the lawyers report in a note, "against the author of the statements recorded by the commission's consultants, indicated by the press as Saverio Giampà, for aggravated slander; against the journalist Massimo Giletti for aggravated defamation, in relation to a video published on Instagram on 18 October and the statements made in the 19 October episode of the broadcast 'Lo stato delle cose' on Rai3; and against anyone who revealed or disseminated the content of the documents and the identity of the declarants, for revelation of official secrets and arbitrary publication of documents of a criminal proceeding". And again, "against the second declarant, indicated by the press as Renan William Vilanova Correa, if from the complete documents it appears that he has made accusations against Mussari". "Mussari has asked to be heard by the magistrates and has declared himself available as of now to clarify every circumstance", explain the lawyers. The deed, accompanied by 21 documents, was presented by Mussari himself, assisted by professor Tullio Padovani and by lawyers Fabio Pisillo and Francesco Marenghi.
Mussari's lawyers highlight that two declarants have "already been convicted of slander", and express "deep regret" for the fact that the former president of Banca MPS was called to a confrontation by the commission "without revealing the names of his accusers", while "public opinion thus learned who the 'instigator' would have been before knowing who accused him". In the press release, the lawyers reconstruct the judicial precedents of the two declarants which led the president of the parliamentary commission Gianluca Vinci to indicate Mussari "as the instigator of an intimidating action" against Rossi which then ended badly. "The only element that links the lawyer Mussari to this affair is his friendship with David Rossi", write the defenders, who define this bond as "used as a pretext to drag him into an infamous accusation". The defense also contests the dissemination of documents which are supposedly bound to secrecy by the law establishing the Commission and by its regulations and ask that it be ascertained "who, and how, released those documents", underlining that "the search for the truth about the death of David Rossi cannot pass through the violation of the rules established to guarantee everyone, and of the investigations themselves". Finally, in relation to the program 'Lo stato delle cose', broadcast on Rai3, the lawyers report that they have also presented, with the same complaint, a complaint for aggravated defamation against Massimo Giletti. During the episode, according to the defense, a night photograph of a person was shown in the alley adjacent to the one where Rossi's body was found, indicating him as Mussari. "The person portrayed in that photograph is not the lawyer Mussari", "once again, a false attribution, broadcast before a national audience, without the slightest verification". "Mussari - they further observe - places full trust in the judiciary. He renews his respect and closeness to David Rossi's family: those who were his friends wish, no less than his family, that full light be shed on his death. But the truth is not built on the words of those who have already accused the innocent. Mussari reserves any further initiative, in any forum, against anyone who returns to spread baseless accusations".
Giletti: "I have not disclosed any classified documents on Mussari"
"Power doesn't like a certain type of press. We will respond in court to the accusations that Mussari makes against me. The only thing I want to say, in light of what I have read and what Mussari's lawyers have said, is that I have not disclosed any classified documents. I only gave a preview of Mussari's name that if it had been classified it would not have been reported the following day by President Vinci in the commission of inquiry. So that name should not have been classified, I can only deduce that the documents were deposited in the previous days". Massimo Giletti states this, regarding the complaint received from the former president of Banca Mps, Giuseppe Mussari, for the investigations into the death of David Rossi aired on Lo stato delle cose on Rai3. As for the announcement of the lawsuit by Giancarlo Pittelli, Giletti adds: "I believe, with respect for Pittelli, because I am extremely sure, that he has much more serious processes and situations about which he has to give answers and to worry about. Everything else doesn't interest me."
