Overview
- On Rai3, Massimo Giletti displayed Sept. 17, 2024 chat excerpts referencing a “giro gay” that named Giletti, Tommaso Cerno, Marco Mancini, Alfonso Signorini and an unidentified “signor B,” calling Ranucci “a human disappointment.”
- Sigfrido Ranucci responded on Facebook that he never accused Giletti of belonging to a gay lobby, alleging instead that Giletti and Cerno are friends and “at the service” of former intelligence official Marco Mancini.
- Ranucci and Maria Rosaria Boccia contend the published chats were partial or stripped of context and say they were reacting to offensive language attributed to Cerno, while Giletti focused on rejecting the notion of a powerful lobby.
- The chats are part of the Rome prosecutor’s file that led to Boccia’s indictment for aggravated stalking, injuries and illicit interference involving ex‑minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, and no new defamation complaints have been filed.
- Political fallout grew as Senator Maurizio Gasparri submitted a parliamentary question and wrote to UNAR accusing Ranucci of homophobia, critics charged political instrumentalization, and Mancini called the “giro gay, pericolosissimo” label a falsehood and consulted lawyers.