Emiliano Fittipaldi

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Emiliano Fittipaldi (born November 13, 1974 in Naples ) is an Italian investigative journalist and book author . He is one of the protagonists in the Vatileaks 2.0 scandal and was on trial in the Vatican State.

life and work

Fittipaldi studied Modern Literature at the University of Naples Federico II and completed his Masters at the Business School of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome. He then worked for the Milanese daily Il Corriere della Sera , later switching to Il Mattino , the sixth largest daily newspaper in Italy. Since 2007 he has been editor of the news magazine L'Espresso . His work applies in particular to corrupt politicians, financial scandals and all kinds of crime. His blog is called Senza zucchero (German: Without Sugar ). In some cases, he also made texts available to the Informazione Sostenibile online portal .

In his books, published by Feltrinelli and Rizzoli, Fittipaldi criticizes the unscrupulous environmental pollution of numerous regions of Italy, the financial machinations of the Vatican State, but also - together with Tommaso Cerno - the practices of his own profession of discrediting unwelcome representatives with the help of journalistic attacks.

Avarizia

At the beginning of November 2015, the book Avarizia (German: Geiz ) was published, in which Fittipaldi uncovered financial shortcomings in the Vatican State - using confidential sources, in particular the COSEA auditing commission set up by Pope Francis . The Kathpress referred to Fittipaldi's book and the simultaneously published book Via Crucis by Gianluigi Nuzzi as "scandal books ". Federico Lombardi , the Vatican's spokesman, criticized "the fruit of a grave betrayal of the trust" that Pope Francis had granted. According to kath.net, Fittipaldi lists "allegedly 'superfluous expenses' of the new Vatican economic secretariat." The curia authority had spent "hundreds of thousands of euros on business class flights, tailor-made clothing, valuable furniture and 4,600 euros for the vanity unit of a washbasin". In addition, certain funds are said to have been misappropriated by the Roman Curia for charitable purposes .

Since November 24, 2015, Fittipaldi had to answer before the Court of Justice of the Vatican State for the publication of secret documents. Also charged were: the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi , the Spanish prelate Lucio Ángel Vallejo Balda , who had been in custody in the Vatican since the beginning of November 2015, and the PR agent Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui (both were members of the COSEA auditing commission set up by Pope Francis ) and Nicola Maio, a COSEA employee. While Nuzzi described the process as "Kafkaesque and absurd", Fittipaldi emphasized that he was not accused of defamation or lying, but of publishing information, which he believed was a universal human right. On July 7, 2016, the responsible criminal chamber acquitted him . The public prosecutor's office had also pleaded for Fittipaldi's acquittal for lack of evidence, but requested prison sentences for the other four.

Book publications

  • with Dario Di Vico : Profondo Italia . Rizzoli, Milan 2004.
  • So ci uccidono: storie, affari e segreti dell'Italia dei veleni . Rizzoli, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-58-61911-7 . [How they kill us]
  • with Tommaso Cerno : La macchina del fango. Come funziona il sistema della disinformazione italiana . Feltrinelli, Milan 2011, ISBN 978-88-07172-17-5 . [The mud machine]
  • Avarizia: i documenti segreti sull'impero economico del Vaticano . Feltrinelli, Milan 2015, ISBN 978-88-07-17298-4 . [Greed]
  • Avarizia: le carte che svelano ricchezza, scandali e segreti della Chiesa di Francesco . Feltrinelli, Milan 2015.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Espresso : Senza zucchero , Emiliano Fittipaldi's blog, accessed on November 26, 2015
  2. ↑ Informazione sostenibile , accessed on November 26, 2015
  3. ↑ kath.net: Nuzzi and Fittipaldi's scandal books presented: Vatikankritik , November 4, 2015
  4. ↑ Comunicato della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, November 21, 2015
  5. ↑ Der Standard , Vatileaks Scandal: Trial of Five Defendants Postponed , November 24, 2015
  6. ^ Vatileaks trial: priest sentenced to 18 months in prison. Spiegel Online, July 7, 2016, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Fittipaldi, Emiliano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples