Russian embassy in Rome sues La Stampa newspaper over report on Putin’s assassination

“And what if Putin’s assassination was the only way out” of the war in Ukraine?

The Russian ambassador to Italy today filed a lawsuit against La Stampa newspaper after the publication of a major article examining the case of the physical extermination of the Russian president.

In an article published March 22, journalist and war reporter Domenico Currico wrote: “Military intervention is ruled out, the diplomatic solution is ineffective, all that remains is to theorize the Tsar’s assassination at the hands of someone close to him.”

“The number one plan of Biden, NATO and the Europeans is to put someone in Moscow to assassinate Putin, freeing us from the burden,” he said.

But this war reporter, who was abducted twice, in Libya in 2011 and then in Syria in 2013, concludes: “We are sure that the tyrannical elimination would not have caused even worse chaos; we can only be pessimistic.”

The Russian ambassador to Italy, Sergei Razov, filed a complaint this morning with the Rome prosecutor’s office for inciting a crime.

Leaving the courthouse, the diplomat denounced an article “that violates the ethics, morals and rules of journalism”.

Asked by Agence France-Presse, the director of La Stampa denied the “baseless allegations”.

“Domenico developed this theory only to deconstruct it (…) Beyond the moral question, he writes that treatment would be worse than disease because it would risk worsening the spirit of revenge for deep Russia,” Massimo said. Giannini.

He also said he rejected “the lessons of those who deal with information in the way they know it in their own country. It is not the Russian ambassador who will teach us journalism.”

La Stampa received the support of many political parties and many officials, including Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

“I want to express my solidarity with all the journalists at La Stampa and its director, Giannini,” Draghi told reporters in Brussels after the EU summit.

Commenting on the Russian diplomat’s complaint, he added that “he is basically the ambassador of a country where there is no freedom of the press.”

Earlier, Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Benedetto Della Ventova defended “the freedom of Italian journalists to write and practice their profession”.

“It’s the essential difference between Italy, Europe, the liberal democracies and Putin’s Russia, where citizens are arrested only for calling war a war,” he said on his Twitter account.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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