L’Opening of Tg1 first, then an appendix at the end of the 8pm news auto solver. The Rai dedicates ample space to the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiulianostuck for days in the Boccia case. Overwhelmed by the story of the (not) consultant which is ending up putting the pillory governmentexposed point by point by the counter-narrative of the same Maria Rosaria Boccia on his Instagram page, the minister takes the peak of the TV news audience Mazzini Avenue and the schedule changes, with the postponement of Your Businessto support three things. One: “I can’t be blackmailed.” Two: “We had a emotional relationshipI paid for the trips,” he said, showing sheets that allegedly demonstrate the transactions from his own account. And again: “I submitted my resignation to Meloni, she told me to carry on.”
In front of the director Gianmarco Chiocchinumber one of Tg1 of which Sangiuliano himself was Deputy Director for ten years, the minister is moved as he apologizes to the wifeto the President of the Council Georgia Melonial government and his collaborators. In over 15 minutes of interviewstigmatized by the opposition who speak of “private use of public service”the man who leads Culture claims to have submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister, who has rejected. So publicly confirms what he had already said to Meloni during the private conversation on Tuesday: the ministry has not paid anything for the trips e accommodations of the entrepreneur from Campania, who did not come into possession of any confidential document on the safety of others G7 Culture.
No crimes have been detected, he says again, but only private matters. And in this regard the minister, very emotional, offers his apologies to the people close to him involved in this story. But already the 8pm preview during the news unleashes Boccia herself, who responds on Instagram to his statements: “Let’s start saying lies! On this ground I cannot be blackmailed…”, he writes in the stories, implying that not all the trips were paid for by the minister with his personal credit cardas Sangiuliano told Tg1.
The appointment process, the minister claimed, was interrupted precisely because of the emotional relationship that had been established, which lasted from May to July of this year: “The procedure she stopped, she signed but the document was never countersigned from the Chief of Staff,” he explained. “She may have come here to the ministry four, five times. He began to interact with subjects of the ministry for absolutely essential aspects G7 marginals like the menu of the dinner, the gadget for the guests,” Sangiuliano said regarding Boccia’s role within the Department of Culture. Regarding the documents shown by the (non) consultant, he assured, are “absolutely not reserved nor classified” whose content had been “published by the daily newspaper La Repubblica”.
Regarding travel and stays he then pointed out: “Never has a single euro from the ministry been spent on Dr. Boccia”. Then he showed the screenshot of aircraft transaction documents for Taorminaof trains for Milano e Bari: “Ho I paid for it out of my own pocketit’s all verifiable. Never a single public euro”. A Pompeiinstead, “there was no transfer because she lived there”, while in Sanremo “the organization paid” and Ligurian shore “he paid the mayor out of his own pocket,” the minister continued. Chiocci then asked for an account of the recordings inside Montecitorio with the glasses-camerarevealed by The Daily Factand other recordings made by Boccia: “It’s one of the reasons why I wanted to end the relationship – he said – I have never been conspiracy theorist and I don’t want to think about other things, even if what these last few hours have made me think about.” “Do you think there is a director behind it?”, asked Chiocci. “I categorically exclude it,” replied Sangiuliano. And he insisted on not fearing the opening of ainvestigation of the judiciary because “I don’t see any legal implications” on what happened but admits that some things are “reprehensible”.
