Lino Jannuzzi (born Raffaele Iannuzzi; 20 February 1928) is an Italian journalist and politician.

Biography

Jannuzzi began his journalistic career at ''

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'' and in 1967, together with his colleague

Eugenio Scalfari Eugenio Scalfari (; 6 April 1924 – 14 July 2022) was an Italian journalist. He was editor of the news magazine ''L'Espresso'' (1963–1968), a member of parliament in the Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972), and co-founder of the newspaper ''La ...

, published the investigation on the military secret services involved in the attempted

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known as ''

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''. General Giovanni de Lorenzo, the mind behind the ''Piano Solo'', sued both Jannuzzi and Scalfari: the two journalists managed to avoid prison thanks to the parliamentary immunity offered in 1968 by the

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, with which Scalfari was elected to the

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and Jannuzzi to the

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. After this first political experience, Jannuzzi returned to journalism and in 1979 was one of the founders of

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. From 2001 to 2008, Jannuzzi held once again a seat in the

, elected with

Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies ...

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, who granted him parliamentary immunity from several judicial controversies he was involved in. He is currently a columnist for Panorama and for

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Judicial events

At the end of the 1990s, Jannuzzi was investigated for some articles in which he expressed numerous criticisms of the Neapolitan magistracy concerning the case of Enzo Tortora, considered as a victim of a very serious judicial error. In 2002, Jannuzzi was sentenced to two years, five months and ten days of imprisonment for press defamation, and in 2004 he was forced to serve his sentence, transformed into a

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sentence. One year later, in 2005,

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signed a provision of grace for Jannuzzi.

Journalistic campaigns against the judges of Palermo

On 19 October 1991, Jannuzzi accused judge

Giovanni Falcone Giovanni Falcone (; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian ...

, who was trying to get the licenses to create a power of contrast against the

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associations, of being the main responsible for the inability of the country institutions to fight

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Journalistic campaigns against the judges of Milan

On 20 December 2001, Jannuzzi wrote on Panorama, after having written it on

, that there was a plot against

organised by several judges from

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who, according to the words of Jannuzzi, tried to define strategies in order to arrest Berlusconi. Without any kind of evidence of the plot, Jannuzzi,

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and the publishing house of

were all sued, with the last two sentenced to a total reimbursement of 350,000 euros.

References

External links

*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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