New season of “Report”, Minister Giuli and a new “Boccia case”: the previews

THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FIRST EPISODE OF REPORT

The first is “From Boccia to Boccioni“, the investigation by Giorgio Mottola with the collaboration of Greta Orsi on the management of the Maxxi in Rome during the presidency of the current Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli and his former chief of staff Francesco Spano. In particular, the public funding obtained by the Maxxi and the management of the exhibition on futurism will be discussed. And for the first time Alberto Dambruoso, art historian, speaks to Report: “My case is identical to that of Boccia. I was told to take care of the exhibition on futurism but after a year and a half they told me that I had to take a step back”.

Next, “Liguria nostra“, by Luca Chianca in collaboration with Alessia Marzi, which returns to the arrest of the former president of the Region Giovanni Toti, the former president of the port authority Emilio Signorini and one of the most important terminal operators of the port, Aldo Spinelli. A judicial earthquake that led the Liguria Region to new elections. The investigation aims to understand the new political balances and the new candidates, starting from the last regional elections of 2020.

“Put the candle back in place” is instead the investigation by Manuele Bonaccorsi with Thomas Mackinson and Madi Ferrucci. The Macerata prosecutor’s office has closed the investigation into Vittorio Sgarbi, former undersecretary of Culture in the Meloni government, accused of having exhibited and counterfeited a seventeenth-century work on which a theft report was pending. It is the Capture of Saint Peter, by the Caravaggio artist Rutilio Manetti, which was stolen in 2013 from the Buriasco castle, in the province of Turin. Sgarbi had exhibited a completely identical painting in Lucca in 2021, except for one detail: a torch in the top left. The judicial investigation was born from an investigation carried out by “Report” and Il Fatto Quotidiano in December 2023. In the episode aired on October 27, Report will reveal the last still unknown aspects of the story, which emerged from the investigations conducted by the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Unit. Are the work stolen in Buriasco and the one owned by Sgarbi two different copies of the same subject – as Sgarbi claimed – or are they the same work? Did someone add the candle? And on whose orders?

Rosamaria Aquino, with Norma Ferrara and Enrica Riera, then signs “The hidden massacre“: it is the night between June 16 and 17, 2024. A sailing boat of French tourists rescues another sailing boat, almost sunk, 120 miles from the Calabrian coast. On board there were 12 migrants, only a small part of a group of 76 people, a third of whom were children, who had embarked a week earlier from Bodrum, Turkey. It is the shipwreck of Roccella Jonica, from the port where the survivors will be transported by the Coast Guard. Report, with unpublished testimonies, traces all the phases of that shipwreck, from the first alarm launched by Alarm Phone to the management of survivors and repatriations.