Hearing at the Review Court for Valter Lavitola: request for house arrest

The hearing before the Rome Review Court lasted just over three hours for Valter Lavitola, detained since 10 August on charges of being the alleged instigator of the attack against Sigfrido Ranucci, presenter of Report, who came under fire in October 2025. After the discussion of his defenders, the panel reserved its decision. The judges will have to decide whether to grant Lavitola house arrest and whether to declare the precautionary measure lapsed due to the expiration of the terms.

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The intervention before the Review judges

«I did all this to protect Ranucci from an attack I had news about. There was such a need to protect him that for two months after the events of October I called Ranucci to ask that his escort be strengthened." This is essentially what Lavitola said before the review judges, based on what his defenders, lawyers Sergio and Arturo Cola, reported.

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According to what the lawyers report «the political motive that the Rome Prosecutor's Office hypothesizes is non-existent. Based on what Lavitola reiterated today, Ranucci never intended to run and enter politics. Indeed, Ranucci often complained that Lavitola brought up the topic."

Lavitola: «I gave a blank warrant for the attack but it shouldn't have done any harm»

«The bomb attack - explained Lavitola, according to what was reconstructed by his lawyers - was an idea of Gomes Tavares for which I take full responsibility. Gomes warned me that he would do it his way without telling me it would be a bomb. I had given a blank mandate specifying that it must not harm anyone."

House arrest requested in Basilicata

Lavitola's lawyers have requested the replacement of prison custody with house arrest in a house in Noepoli, Basilicata, rented by his son. «After the interrogation on 8 July, Lavitola, through our office, communicated to Colonel Ferrara all his movements, making himself completely available to the investigators. It is false, as already claimed by Lavitola himself in spontaneous declarations, that he had purchased a ticket to escape: that trip was linked to a service conference which was never held in person", they explain. «We are not asking for it only because we believe the deadlines have expired, but above all because the precautionary requirements have no longer existed: there is no longer a risk of escape or evidence pollution. The investigation is now crystallized in the confessions, in the calls to correspondents and in the other elements collected", they conclude.