Newspapers 'spew propaganda', no amnesty

(ANSA) - Rome, October 16 - Newspapers "spew propaganda", Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said Tuesday, saying there had been "no amnesty" in the government's 'fiscal peace' decree allowing people with up to 100,000 euros of arrears to settle with authorities provided they have filed income-tax returns.
    "This will be the first year in Italy without a fiscal shield for tax dodgers! The newspapers are no longer capable of analysing reality and only spew propaganda: they are by now on the brink of a nervous breakdown", the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader said on Facebook.
    "We had said we would not do fiscal shields or amnesties and so it has been. The government has used already existing instruments such as the supplementary declaration or the reimbursement under 1000 euros," Di Maio said.