Sangiuliano case, Ranucci: “The former minister’s audio recording was in the public interest”

Rome, Nov. 5 (LaPresse) – “We guarantee privacy. In the Sangiuliano case, we considered that audio recording to be in the public interest. I wonder how anyone could think that an audio recording involving the wife of a minister, a fellow journalist and therefore a public figure, asking her husband to block a contract, otherwise she would replace him in blocking the consultancy by calling his chief of staff, is not in the public interest.” So said Sigfrido Ranucci, host of ‘Report’, during the hearing before the Rai Supervisory Commission. “That part of the audio,” he continued, “was significant because it provided a piece of information that was missing from the mosaic of the story. Since it is a fact that led to the resignation of a minister, I believe it met all the requirements of public interest.”