Rome.”The news is reported by 'Fatto Quotidiano' of the opening of an investigation into the case of the stolen painting which involves Vittorio Sgarbi it does nothing but confirm the alarming contours of this whole affair.
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We will see what the results of the investigation will be, but we continue to reiterate that the timing of politics on some specific cases in which the honorability of the institutions is called into question are absolutely different and require speed and concreteness.
We ask Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano what kind of actions they intend to take on the Sgarbi case and in general to express themselves clearly on an affair that represents a unique event on a global level".
This is what the 5 Star Movement reads in a note. “Otherwise, this government would confirm once again that the logic of consociation and self-preservation prevails over the national interest,” it adds.
The file was apparently opened by the prosecutor's office of Imperia, which then transferred it to that of Macerata and concerns the theft from the castle of Buriasco (Turin) in 2013 of the painting attributed to Rutilio Manetti, which reappeared in Lucca in 2021 as an "unpublished" property of the Undersecretary of Culture.
Sgarbi, I didn't receive any warnings and I didn't steal
"I have not received any notice of investigation. Nor would I know how to be investigated for a theft that I did not commit. And for a crime committed 11 years ago, in circumstances not clarified by the investigators at the time. From this news, a clear violation of the secrecy of the investigation emerges, the only crime of which there is evidence."
The Undersecretary of Culture, Vittorio Sgarbi, comments on the indiscretion of Il Fatto quotidiano that today announces an investigation against him. “Yet another defamation” says Sgarbi who adds: “Once again Il Fatto is lying”.
Article published on 9 January 2024 - 13:43
