Campania Governor Vincenzo De
Luca on Monday said a report on alleged waste trafficking by Web
news site Fanpage that prompted his son Roberto to quit as
Salerno budget councillor was a "disgrace" and had been trumped
up to hurt his party ahead of the March 4 general election.
De Luca, a senior figure in the ruling centre-left Democratic
Party (PD), said: "This isn't journalism, it's a national
disgrace".
"In these hours," he said, "we are witnessing a campaign of
media and pseudo-journalistic aggression against us on the eve
of a delicate electoral campaign, a Camorra mafia-like and
Fascist thug-like operation starting with waste management."
A PD supporter slapped a Fanpage reporter at the press
conference called by Roberto De Luca on Sunday, sparking
condemnation from other parties, with the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S) in the lead.
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