«Unjustifiable intrusion into private life» by John Elkann. And his lawyers are threatening lawsuits against the Rai troupe of Porta a Porta.
«In recent days – write Paolo Siniscalchi, Federico Cecconi and Carlo Re in a note – a television crew occupied a private space belonging to John Elkann's private home in Turin to take video shots using a drone. As later emerged, the filming was carried out for the Porta a Porta broadcast. In the face of this unjustifiable intrusion into the private life of our client, which was also carried out by state TV, and to protect his privacy and that of his family which also includes three minors, we are today announcing a lawsuit against all those responsible, warning the editorial team of Porta a Porta from repeating similar behaviors, as well as from using any image thus obtained in any way ."
«Furthermore, given the continuation of the current climate of media aggression which goes beyond the boundaries of the right of reporting and criticism - continue the lawyers of the president of Stellantis -, John, Lapo and Ginevra Elkann have given us the mandate to protect their reputation through appropriate judicial initiatives, warning anyone from the dissemination of untruthful and defamatory articles and press reports ".
«The film maker of the program, equipped with a regular flight license, stopped filming after the invitation from the security of the Elkann house», replies the program in a note. «Those images have not been and will not be broadcast - the note continues -. Furthermore, the Privacy Guarantor clarifies in a note dated September 2021 that the use of images taken by drones for journalistic purposes is permitted even without the consent of the interested parties , without prejudice to obvious precautions such as not filming people, license plates and other elements identifiers. In any case, once the dissent of Elkann security was registered, we avoided transmitting the images ."
(Unioneonline/D)