BOLOGNA (ITALPRESS) – “I believe the time has come to clarify some things with respect to what happened Saturday, March 22, on the sidelines of the presentation of my latest book. The gesture I made belongs to a familiar gesture of mine. I realized, seeing the footage, that I had almost mechanically transported that gesture into a different sphere. I made a mistake, and for that I am sorry. But it is clear from the images and audio that I never intended to attack, let alone intimidate the journalist.” Romano Prodi said in a note.
“This affair gives me an opportunity for a reflection that is perhaps useful,” the former premier continues. “I think it is everyone’s right, no matter at all what role he or she has played in life, to claim his or her own history and honorability and not to accept, as an inevitable fate, rampant instrumentalization and even mockery, also thanks to the power of the Net. As if an entire life does not count, as if the future does not exist.”
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