That’s right, today is one of those days in which we who communicate take note of one thing: we live in a terrible climate, of forced silences and gags. Of isolation, too, and of explosives under the cars. Almost a script from the ’80s, when journalists, “uncomfortable” journalists like Siani, blew up. Today, however, with subtle and brutal differences.
In these hours it could have happened to Sigfrido Ranucci. His car and that of his daughter exploded, almost simultaneously, in Campo Ascolano, a town in Pomezia, on the outskirts of Rome, yesterday evening. Under the house, under their noses, a few minutes after they had passed by.
Shortly after two in the morning Ranucci gave his first comment on the phone to Corriere della Sera:
My daughter passed in front of my car a few minutes before the explosion, they could have killed a person, they could have killed my daughter. They used at least a kilo of explosives, Ranucci says.
Now the Anti-Mafia is investigating, while words of solidarity immediately arrive from Minister Crosetto and Giorgia Meloni.
A bomb explodes under the car of Report presenter Sigfrido Ranucci
A bomb explodes under the car of the Report host Sigfrido Ranucci. Tonight a bomb was placed under the parked car of the journalist and Report host, Sigfrido Ranucci. The car blew up, also damaging the other family car and the house next door. Carabinieri, Digos, firefighters and forensics were on site. The relevant Prosecutor’s Office has activated the necessary checks and the Prefect has been notified. The power of the explosion was such that it could have killed anyone who had passed by at the time.
Posted by Report on Thursday, October 16, 2025
But what and how much responsibility do they have in this climate of hatred that rages in every corner?
The Usigrai Executive says it well in a note:
We are certain that neither Siegfried nor his Report colleagues will be intimidated. We will always be at their side so that they can freely continue their investigative work. In recent months we have denounced how Rai has reduced the space available to Report and above all the climate of hatred and intolerance for the editorial team’s investigations. In prime time on Rai1, the second-highest state official even went so far as to define Report’s colleagues as “serial slanderers”, without either the host or the company distancing themselves. A hate campaign against investigative journalism that must end.
They have a lot of responsibilities. The narration of the facts, of any fact, that the Government has decided to do – pressing and increasingly provocative in recent months – is that of a propaganda-like regime. A narrative made unambiguously, without cross-examination, only on the flagship network, without ever a press conference open to the most varied newspapers (there has not been one since January 2025).
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It is a heavy and accusatory narrative, in which the finger is pointed at anyone who is (simply) “left-wing”, anyone who attempts a change of opinion, of points of view, in which overseas characters with questionable CVs are praised. Ranucci was and is precisely the victim of this narrative, in the first person. Him and all his Report staff.
Today they are “indignant”, but if everything has become obscure and illicit (even sexual education at school has been classified as a crime to be kept aside), they should feel a modicum of guilt.
