A woman accuses the president of Action,
Matteo Richetti
, who was re-nominated in Emilia Romagna in the elections on 25 September, of harassment.
But Action squares: "
He is the injured party"
.
The case arises from an article published by the Fanpage site that tells the story of a woman without writing the identity of the person concerned, in which it speaks of a "senator of the Republic at the top of an important party" who is accused from a woman of abusing her in her institutional office ".
"After months of investigations, we have come into possession of documents, including chat, audio and email that would coincide with his story and for this reason we believe it appropriate to tell it", reads the fanpage site.
The article also talks about a house search that the woman would have immediately after the senator's complaint.
"Certain events in my opinion must be dealt with in the competent offices that are the court. The complaint in the newspapers and not in court seems to me not very serious", said the leader Iv Matteo Renzi speaking with journalists on the sidelines of an electoral initiative in Florence.
The leader of Action, Carlo Calenda, considers the attack on Richetti "shameful".
"I don't know where it has ever happened in the history of a Western democracy that an anonymous person is interviewed about a complaint never made to the judicial authority regarding unverified accusations against a senator of the Republic during the electoral campaign".
"Today - said Calenda - we sent the report of 12 months ago with the messages that this lady sent to Richetti, from which it is perfectly clear that we are dealing with a person who is not well and that everything was except that harassed. This is one of the most shameful pages of Italian journalism in recent years, which also has many shameful pages, because Fanpage was perfectly aware of the situation, with lots of references of those who were dealing with the investigations and decided to ignore it because the only thing he was interested in was making a political attack during the elections and he had so little courage that he didn't even have the courage to put Richetti's name, but only a half picture from which he was recognizable. These things in normal countries they don't happen.I hope Richetti complains Fanpage ".
