Vittorio Sgarbi has resigned as Undersecretary of Culture. He announced this himself on the sidelines of the "La Ripartenza" event in Milan: "I resign with immediate effect as Undersecretary of the Government. I do it for you: now I am just Sgarbi, no longer Undersecretary. I will announce it to Meloni in the next few hours".
The letter from the Antitrust
"The Antitrust sent a very complex and confusing letter saying that it had accepted two anonymous letters, which the Minister of Culture sent to the Antitrust, stating that I cannot hold a conference with Porro", Sgarbi said.
"It's a theatrical twist, I've been pondering for two hours whether to do it or not," Sgarbi explained. "The law allows me, through the Tar, to indicate those things that I said, namely"that there can be no conflict of interest for those who do not have a job, who do not act, who do not teach, who are retired as a professor and as a superintendent" he added, stressing that "I have occasionally held conferences like this. This conference - he explained - according to what the Antitrust sent me, would be incompatible, illegal, against the law". So, "to prevent all of you from being accomplices in a crime, I speak from this moment free of my mandate as Undersecretary. You still have a minister and other undersecretaries - he concluded -. I start again and from now on I can go on TV and hold conferences".
February 15 is the deadline by which the Antitrust Authority will have to rule on the incompatibility for Vittorio Sgarbi between his extra-government activities and the role he holds at Mic. According to what has been learned, the procedure may have already been closed and the conclusions may be communicated in the first days of next week, perhaps as early as Monday.
Insults to the Report journalist
Sgarbi's reaction to the investigations of the Report journalist also weighed heavily. "I don't have to apologize to anyone, I expressed my curses like anyone else," he said on the sidelines of the event. When asked what image of him was coming from abroad following his reactions, the Undersecretary replied: "We have to ask abroad. The Undersecretary did not give any interviews so those were stolen images. And one in his private life can say what he wants". As for the death wishes to journalists, he says: "I wouldn't do the interview again because I didn't do it. And anyway the journalist won't die for this".
"You don't know a shit, you're ignorant", "you have a shitty face. If you die in a car accident I'm happy. I hope you have an accident". And finally the threat, to pull down the zipper of his pants. The off-air was broadcast by Report: the journalist was investigating the purchase and sale of a Valentin de Boulogne by the art critic. According to the reconstruction of the transmission, the work belonged to a rich family, in decline and was sold for more than 10 thousand euros in cash. The painting, which would be worth millions, would have ended up in the hands of Sgarbi's driver and then directly to him. A reconstruction that Sgarbi, however, denied.
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