OPERAZIONE REPORT: Tutte le carte, gli interrogativi e i sospetti sul caso Ranucci-Lavitola

Il direttore anticipa i temi del nuovo numero di MillenniuM, disponibile in libreria e negli store online.

Una trasmissione d’inchiesta invisa al potere. Una bomba cosiddetta “amica”. Un faccendiere specializzato in torbidi servizi alla politica. Partiti che invadono la tv pubblica. Sono gli ingredienti di quella che abbiamo chiamato “Operazione Report”, di cui conosciamo in parte lo svolgimento e in tutto l’esito: quello di allontanare il giornalista Sigfrido Ranucci dalla conduzione della più importante trasmissione di giornalismo investigativo della Rai, dopo nove anni di conduzione (salvo il successo dei ricorsi dell’interessato al Tribunale del lavoro di Roma). Nove anni in cui molte puntate di Report hanno scatenato gli attacchi della politica, in particolare dal centrodestra e dalla frangia renziana. Che si sono via via trasformati in una vera e propria campagna, amplificata dalla stampa di destra. Parte da qui “Operazione Report”, titolo di copertina del numero di ottobre di MillenniuM, il mensile diretto da Peter Gomez. Il racconto prende il via dall’altro protagonista, il faccendiere Valter Lavitola, con il ritratto approfondito e documentato a firma di Marco Lillo. Sul personaggio i media tendono a far prevalere aspetti quasi folcloristici, ma la sua biografia racconta ben altro: relazioni coi potenti, processi e condanne, intrighi politici ai massimi livelli, che hanno cambiato la storia di questo Paese, dalla caduta del governo Prodi nel 2008 alle manovre contro politici sgraditi. Una parabola in cui affiorano contatti stretti con i servizi segreti, un leitmotiv della sua fulminante ascesa, come scrive il direttore Peter Gomez. Sulla “Operazione Report” Millennium parte dai fatti, vale a dire l’inchiesta giudiziaria sulla bomba esplosa davanti a casa di Ranucci, a Torvaianica, il 16 ottobre 2025: l’individuazione dell’arruffata manovalanza campana, l’improvvisa entrata in scena di Lavitola, la “amicizia fraterna” rivendicata a sorpresa dal conduttore, la sequenza di “affettuosi” moventi snocciolati dal faccendiere. Ma oltre le carte c’è di più: gli affari, africani e non solo, che portano a Marco Dell’Utri, figlio del senatore che è stato la mente organizzativa di Forza Italia e ha scontato una condanna a 7 anni per concorso esterno in associazione mafiosa. L’Operazione Report ci fa riflettere sul rapporto tra informazione e potere, ma anche sui fili trasversali del potere. Che possono passare anche per un piatto di vongole. Sgusciate o meno.

L'articolo Millennium, “Operazione Report”: il nuovo numero del mensile analizza il caso Ranucci-Lavitola proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

A proposito dei lavori della Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sulla morte di David Rossi, presieduta da Gianluca Vinci (Fratelli d’Italia), riceviamo e pubblichiamo il commento dell’avvocato Jacopo Pensa, uno dei principali del foro milanese, già difensore di Giuseppe Mussari, ex presidente di Mps

Dalla presunzione di innocenza alla presunzione di colpevolezza. Questo è il principio scaturente dalla vergognosa divulgazione da parte della Commissione d’inchiesta sul caso Rossi-Monte Paschi dei due nomi ormai noti al mondo.

La violazione dei principi costituzionali e di civiltà giuridica sono già stati ben espressi dall’Unione delle camere penali. Ma al di là delle questioni giuridiche sapientemente trattate, c’è da chiedersi sul piano del ragionevolezza e del senso comune quale può essere stata la ratio e quale l’interesse a divulgare in una conferenza stampa nome e cognome del mandante e dell’organizzatore di quella turpe missione finita così tragicamente.

Mi ha colpito in particolare l’aria serafica e compiaciuta con la quale il presidente ha pronunciato quei nomi. Aggiungendo poi, paradossalmente, una nota quasi giustificativa in favore dei rei affermando che i due avevano solo lo scopo di intimidire e non già di uccidere, suggerendo così una sorta di linea difensiva: il reato commesso è più grave di quello voluto.

I due nominati hanno così modo di consolarsi. La pena potrà essere diminuita. Con un buon avvocato, si intende.

L'articolo Caso David Rossi, dalla presunzione di innocenza alla presunzione di colpevolezza – Il commento dell’avvocato Pensa proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

United States has denied former Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau permission to travel to Puerto Rico, where she was due to take part in a municipalist forum next month, a decision that sources close to her link to her pro-Palestinian activism.

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Ada Colau, a candidate for the Frente Amplio, had planned to attend the Ciudades Valientes meeting on November 3 and 4 in the municipality of Caguas in central Puerto Rico. When she applied for the digital travel authorization known as ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization), U.S. authorities approved the members of her delegation but denied her request. She was then advised to attend an in-person interview at the U.S. embassy in Madrid.

According to people close to Colau, the interview held two weeks ago focused on her position on the conflict in Gaza. “The entire interview was about the Flotilla and her pro-Palestinian activism, with a lot of insistence on the three days she was held in Israel,” they said.

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After the interview, U.S. authorities issued a final denial, citing “suspicion that she wants to migrate illegally to the country.”

“This is a clear case of political censorship. And it is a disgrace, because while we see that Javier Milei can travel freely to our country to insult the press and citizens in general, his friend Donald Trump bans me from entering a country like Puerto Rico, which is a colony occupied by the United States,” Colau said.

The US has refused to grant a visa to former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau over her participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and her support for Palestine.

Colau had been invited to attend a meeting convened by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. pic.twitter.com/TuEEQasz9x

— The Times of Palestine (@PalTimesNews) October 21, 2026

Ada Colau governed Barcelona between 2015 and 2023. She had traveled to the Caribbean archipelago in April 2024 to discuss urban planning, access to housing, human rights and the role of women in politics. During that visit, at a conference on government and citizen participation, she advocated for truth, justice and reparation in the face of European colonization in Latin America.

The prohibition echoes other restrictions imposed by Washington on figures critical of its foreign policy. The same administration has repeatedly denied a visa to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to attend the United Nations General Assembly. In Colau’s case, the stated rationale of immigration risk collides with a documented history of official visits and public conferences.

Event Agenda Unchanged

The decision keeps the event in Caguas and preserves the original schedule rather than postponing or relocating it.

The Puerto Rican collective confirmed that its upcoming event will keep its original agenda, and that the political leader will participate remotely. “Ada will be present, one way or another, because ideas and courage do not require visas to cross the borders imposed on us to divide us,” they affirmed.

“Colau is one of the founding voices of the international municipalist movement that inspires this meeting and her physical absence will be felt, but we maintain our commitment to the exchange of experiences,” the organizers said, rejecting the ban.

“Her physical absence will be felt, but we maintain our commitment to the exchange of experiences. Our collaboration with Ada and with the Sentit Comú Foundation remains just as strong and Brave Cities will take place as planned,” the League stated in a public communiqué.

For her supporters, the case exposes the double standard at the heart of the colonial relationship. The denial of entry, they insist, is not a security measure but a political sentence delivered through administrative channels.

Organizers say the work continues, and that Colau’s ideas will still shape the conversations in Caguas even in her in-person absence. The entry ban, however, ensures that a voice critical of U.S. policy will not speak from the island that Washington governs as a colony.

🚨🇪🇸 BREAKING — Ada Colau:

“If we trivialize and allow the genocide in Gaza, and apartheid and the colonial persecution of Palestine, humanity is lost.

Therefore, all humanity must not give up, resign itself, normalize or trivialize the genocide in Gaza and the persecution of… pic.twitter.com/cLg7UIx5Ss

— Pamphlets (@PamphletsY) October 18, 2026

Puerto Rico has been under U.S. control since 1898, after the Treaty of Paris, and since 1952 has held the status of a commonwealth with its own constitution, although the United States retains exclusive control over immigration, customs, defense and currency. ESTA was required because of the island’s colonial status. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and ESTA applies to travelers from visa-waiver countries such as Spain who enter U.S. territory.

Rights groups have often criticized U.S. visa denials based on political views, while U.S. officials typically say such decisions follow immigration law and are not open to public discussion.

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The left’s capacity to build knowledge, organization, and struggle was a central theme at this year’s ManiFiesta, introduced during a discussion of Peter Mertens’ new book, “The Last Days of the Old Normal“. In the context of Europe’s ongoing armament, these questions are crucial not only for progressive movements in core countries but also for those building alternatives in Central and Eastern Europe.

The festival featured several sessions examining developments in Central and Eastern Europe, including an intervention by Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko on the class character of the Ukraine war. Another session – “East of the former wall: the AfD, the industrial crisis, and the war economy” – brought together Markéta Juřicová of the Czech party Levice, Orsolya Haboczki from the Hungarian progressive movement Szikra, German Bundestag representative Cem Ince from Die Linke, and Member of the European Parliament Marc Botenga from the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA). 

They discussed how the growth of the far right in core EU countries is interacting with events eastwards – and what lessons Western left movements can learn from their Eastern counterparts.

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As Juřicová and Haboczki pointed out, while movements in the West are worried about the popularity of parties like the Alternative for Germany (AfD), many nations in Central and Eastern Europe already have experience with far-right participation – even leadership – in government. More than 15 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule in Hungary, Haboczki noted, offers an important lesson on far-right governments’ economic agendas and tactics. As the Orbán administration used identity issues to capture opposition parties’ attention, it channeled resources into the hands of the local bourgeoisie and served transnational capital by securing huge state subsidies, she said. 

Right-wing parties in Eastern Europe also look to their international peers for inspiration. In the Czech Republic, Juřicová said, the far right “loves” the AfD, picking and choosing many of the same topics the German group campaigns on. The discussion signaled this is particularly important to recognize as the growth of extreme right parties is fueled largely by popular dissatisfaction with mainstream parties’ programs. 

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Ince emphasized this was the case in Germany, where a large share of AfD votes came from those believing the party would bring upheaval compared to the status quo, marked by massive job losses and cuts to welfare. But while European progressives recognize this, they still struggle to incorporate it into their programs, recent experiences show. Instead, many of them ponder attempts to prevent the far right from seizing institutional power by providing support to establishment parties, failing to shape a concrete alternative to both the mainstream and the extreme right.

In Central and Eastern Europe, the work of progressive parties is further complicated by the need to rebuild credibility after decades of vilification of socialism and austerity measures implemented by liberal options, Haboczki added. 

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While recognizing workers’ material concerns in Central and East Europe is imperative for building local alternatives, the panel showed, it will also be necessary to build region-wide partnership to challenge topics dominating the narrative in Germany, Belgium, and other core countries.

Militarization stands out among these topics, Botenga and Ince outlined in their interventions, though its implementation might differ by sub-region. Botenga added that German industry stands to gain the most from European armament, yet these gains will not trickle down to the working class – meaning the left in the region can find in anti-militarism a common cause to rally around. 

Ince echoed these observations by emphasizing that, even as their profit lines stand to gain from billions of euros directed towards rearmament, German companies continue to shift significant parts of their operations to countries including Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic – making most of eroded workplace protections and labor rights. This shows that the left across Europe must work together to protect workers’ interests everywhere, building a joint struggle for peace and civilian industry, he indicated.