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.
De Luca Sr said that Free and Equal (LeU) leader Pietro
Grasso's solidarity with Fanpage reporter Gaia Bozza and his
criticism of "an ugly climate of tension that does no one any
good" were words "to be ashamed of".
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