Sigfrido Ranucci rejects the accusations: "Never had an interest in Lavitola's affairs"

"I have absolutely never had an interest" in Lavitola's affairs, "never a euro", "I did everything exclusively in a friendship, in which I believed". Journalist and former Report presenter Sigfrido Ranucci said this at the Festa del Fatto in Marina di Pietrasanta (Lucca).

"I have the feeling, or rather the certainty, that they didn't wait for anything else, creating an unprecedented information campaign. There is a perversion of information in recent months and false articles are bouncing around. I'm writing them all down and I'll have to file hundreds of complaints and requests for compensation for damages", Ranucci said again. There is the aim, he explained, of "undermining the credibility" of Ranucci "to justify his removal".

"Absolutely not, just go and see that I was on tour for seven days, then", said the former Report presenter, responding to reporters who asked him if a 'confidential' face-to-face meeting had taken place, with cell phones turned off, between him and Valter Lavitola after the bomb attack on the journalist, according to what Natalia Potenza reportedly told the prosecutors.

Last night, on the sidelines of his show 'Diary of a trapeze artist' in Prato, Ranucci said he had read that the magistrates will listen to him again, "I think so and I think it is right that they listen to me again".