“I don’t know if I’m pissed off or if I just want to have a laugh”. Alessandra Mussolini, on the online newspaper Affaritaliani.it, answered the article published today on “Il Giornale”, that, over a large close up of the MP, titled: “Sex blackmail on Mussolini. The last venom of gossip politics: rumours of a video used to frame the Pdl MP”.

According to the newspaper, there’s a video of Alessandra Mussolini with the leader of Forza Nuova, Roberto Fiore: “I don’t know – said the MP – if I’m pissed off or if I just want to have to laugh. So: they sell on eBay pieces of my grandfather’s brain; three days ago I received a phone call from the police that informed me that Gino Paoli reported me for what I said about his song “Il Pettirosso”. I said that that song spoke about paedophilia, a very serious thing. Today a film will come out in which I’m defined as a whore and murderer and now I’m reading these new things… What should I say? I don’t know. Just let them do what they want…”.

The news of a sex video, interpreted as “blackmail” by the Milanese newspaper, is online since the 20^th of November and “Il Giornale” saw the video. 'Indymedia', a counter-information website, published the news.

Forza Nuova denied the news, saying it was just “salon gossip”, and announced legal action. “These are the final comics, jokes and fortunately we still have some sense of humour. The story published talks of a circuit of video cameras at the head office of Forza Nuova, but there are no cameras there. We also read that Il Giornale bought this alleged video, but the newspaper denied also this news”.  

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute