Lino Jannuzzi died. He was a member of parliament for Forza Italia and was 96 years old. He was the author of one of the most significant scoops in the annals of Italian journalism, the article on the Sifar scandal. He was also at risk of imprisonment for his articles; however, he was spared in 2005 by the pardon signed by the President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Born in Grottolella, Avellino province, in 1928, he worked for the weekly Tempo Illustrato before moving on to direct Radio Radicale, Il Giornale di Napoli, and Il Velino news agency. In recent years, he has worked with Panorama and Il Giornale. He has also written several books, including "Thus Spoke Buscetta, The Trial of the Century". "How and why Andreotti was acquitted"; "Letters from a Convict. Exemplary stories of Italian injustice", "The Cop and the State", to mention a few. He was unquestionably one of the most innovative chroniclers of the latter half of the twentieth century. "I made the first university newspaper that came out in Naples after fascism", he'd often boast. Then, at the end of the 1960s, he collaborated with Eugenio Scalfari to publish pieces in L'Espresso about the so-called Piano Solo, which was credited to Carabinieri General De Lorenzo. A plan that was intended to influence the reform trajectory of the newly established center-left and to ensure the arrest of opposition leaders in the event of public order disruptions. An assault on democracy that prompted General De Lorenzo to denounce the two journalists, who were both convicted. Pietro Nenni nominated them for Parliament, effectively "covering" them.
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