“Investigation full of lies and falsehoods” –

«My grandmother, who taught me Italian, often told me that to err is human, but to persevere is diabolical. This further misstep by Rai3 reminds me of this now. Report, whose host sensationally perseveres with the same falsehoods already contained in the disgusting episode on Albania”. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote this in X, referring to the Report investigation last Sunday on the agreement on migrants between Italy and Albania. According to Rama, the investigation of the program conducted by Sigfrido Ranucci is full of “lies”, adding that the secretary of the Presidency of the Albanian Council, Engjell Agaci, responded within the times requested by him for the broadcast, but that his answers were not been published. Furthermore, Rama claims that these slanders are being used to attack Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the expense of Albania.

The Albanian news portal shqiptarja.com highlights that Rama is also reacting to the accusations once morest his brother, Olsi Rama. According to Rama, in the episode of Report, «not only was there no word of the cross-examination obtained in writing from the victim of the brutal mud attack, but it was told to the public that the secretary Agaci refused to respond. As if this sensational lie were not enough, his journalist appeared the following day on an Albanian TV to reiterate his amazement at the fact that his questions had never been answered, while as the facts show he had obtained all the answers, for registered and within the time requested by him”. «Then – continues Rama – he himself confirms that Report lied when he adds that ‘in Agaci’s reply email, he confirmed that he was the lawyer of some drug traffickers’. If this is Public Service I am Federico Fellini. And if for this Public Service program a criminal lawyer of a State of Law, who as a rule does not live by defending saints but by defending alleged criminals or convicted criminals, must therefore be attacked as if he were a criminal himself, then here to find a similar logic it is inevitable to resort to the memory of Albania when the figure of the defense lawyer was buried by the bloody communist regime like the lepers in the Middle Ages”.

«And the final straw – continues the prime minister – comes when the host says, as if he had made a breathtaking discovery, that Agaci ‘confirmed that he has contributed, since he became Rama’s legal advisor, to the implementation of the protocol’ on migrants between Italy and Albania, also committing a bit of gross logic, since the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers is not my legal advisor, but has held the most important institutional position of the Public Administration since 2013 while the protocol dates back to 2023″. «Out of respect for the Public Service – Rama continues – and also out of an obligation towards the dignity of the authors of this very wrong episode of Report, for the moment I try to believe that in any case all this fury to attack Giorgia Meloni at the expense of Albania is not was a sin in bad faith towards my country and that also the importation of slanders from Albania to Italy (involving in the affairs of the Public Service even the slanders regarding my brother once morest which he had already filed a complaint and is waiting for the word of the Albanian justice) occurred only as the result of an unsustainable lightness of being which more and more often in today’s times unfortunately overwhelms the noble power of information and transforms the world of the right to freedom of information into a world of oppression of freedoms and human rights”. «Assuring the presenter that my grandmother continues to be right even in death – concludes Rama – I affectionately advise him to listen to the holy woman and not to persevere in the terrible mistake of that horrible episode, but simply to close this inglorious page, possibly also publishing this small contribution of mine to the health of the Italian Public Service.” A real avalanche of accusations once morest Report.