21
Oct
2025
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Criminal intimidation against investigative journalists in the EU: the attempted attack on Sigfrido Ranucci (debate)
(IT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, when I heard about the attack on Sigfrido Ranucci - to whom I extend all my solidarity, including the drafting of Report – I thought about how much courage it takes today to tell the truth. In a time when power tries to silence those who investigate, those who tell, those who illuminate the shadows, investigative journalism becomes an act of resistance. Ranucci, like many other honest journalists, does not defend himself, he defends the dignity of his job: the truth. The truth that you don't buy and you don't bend. And those who tell it, even when they are alone, keep a light that belongs to everyone on. That's why today I want to say: We do not leave courageous journalists alone, because when one of them is threatened, it is the freedom of all of us that trembles. Democracy is crying.