Lollobrigida defends Signorelli: “He loves his children, never misses mass, goes on pilgrimage to Medjugorje”

"He has a clean criminal record, he has two degrees, never a word out of line. He couldn't choose his grandfather..."

ROME – Paolo Signorelli “has not missed a Sunday in church for years, he regularly goes on pilgrimage to Medjugorje, he helps anyone in difficulty”. But he is no longer Francesco Lollobrigida’s spokesperson. He resigned over the chat scandal with Diabolik. And so the Minister of Agriculture dedicated a sad farewell to him on his Facebook profile.

“Hatred, the pen and the pencil – writes Lollobrigida – Paolo Signorelli, as I have known him, is a family man who loves his wife and his children. He has a clean criminal record and has two degrees. He works with dedication and professionalism. Never in recent months have I heard him say something out of line. His journalist colleagues have always spoken well of him and, perhaps now only privately, they continue to do so.”

“Certainly the things I read in the chats are unjustifiable but the context in which they were said is much more complex than how it was told. However, it is about his past which appears, to those who know the Paolo of today, much further than just the years that separate it from what was reported in the newspaper on the day of the closing of the electoral campaign. You can find yourself in terrible situations without knowing it or wanting it due to the context in which you grew up or workEspecially if someone else Paolo Signorelli is your grandfather and you certainly couldn’t choose him…“.

“However, it should be important not to have committed crimes and to have had the courage to move on. But this is not always the case. A newspaper has published interceptions that have no criminal relevance except, possibly, for those who disseminated them. How L’Unità also wrote well. De Benedetti’s newspaper, on the other hand, described a different person than a young journalist who hasn’t missed a Sunday in church for years, regularly goes on pilgrimage to Medjugorje, and helps anyone in difficulty. Paolo resigned, so as not to further fuel the meat grinder in which he had ended up, even in the chat rooms of his children’s school… because he is clear that through him they wanted to attack the Government… because of the serenity of his family. it is not expendable”.

But Lollobrigida takes the opportunity to counterattack: “I thank those who had the clarity of mind not to let themselves be exploited by those who pulled them by the jacket between one demonstration and another of hatred against Israel. Everyone knows well that anti-Semites must stay away from Fratelli d’Italia. Or from Lotta Continua journalists who defined us as “a nation of pigs”. Who knows if WhatsApp had existed in the seventies what they would have found in their private chats accompanying the message. ‘hatred that characterized their public writings… Or by the transmissions that host nostalgics of the Red Brigades who killed Moro“.

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