“With painful reflection I decided I would like to offer my resignation as head of the Culture Cabinet with which he wanted to honor me” he writes Francesco Spano for the Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli. “The context created – which we read in the letter of resignation – is not without it unpleasant personal attacksit does not allow me to maintain the calmness of thought necessary to carry out this very important role. For the exclusive benefit of the Administration, then, I believe I have to take a step back. Obviously, this does not prevent me from expressing my profound gratitude for the respect and support you have shown me without hesitation,” Spano explains in the letter.
The Minister of Culture Giuli during Question Time in the Chamber of Deputies, on 11 September 2024 (LaPresse)
Minister Giuli: “Barbaric climate monster which Spano was subject to”
“With great sadnessafter being repeatedly rejected, I receive and accept the resignation of the head of the Cabinet, Francesco Spano. It’s up to him my definite sympathy for the barbaric climate of it monster which he is subject to in these hours. Last but not least, I reiterate to Francesco Spano my respect and gratitude for the excellent technical professionalism and human quality shown in various contexts, including the Ministry of Culture,” says Minister of Culture Giuli.
At a later time, going to the Room for the Question TimeMinister Giuli succinctly answered the questions of journalists who asked him if there was pressure from the Brothers of Italy to accept the resignation of the former head of the cabinet: “I’ll give you some news: appearances are deceptive“. After subsequent attempts by reporters to comment further on the matter, Giuli limited himself to adding only the following: “I have already said everything in the press releases”.
L’affair: Spano appoints her husband to Maxxi, where he himself was general secretary to the president Giuli
Appointed a few days ago, on October 14, Francesco Spano replaced the Collegio Romano as head of cabinet Francesco Gilioli. Minister Giuli met the retiring official at Maxxiwhere the former was president before his current role and Spano was general secretary. In this capacity, according to the preview of the episode Description aired this Sunday, Francesco Spano hired the lawyer among his paid collaborators Marco Carnabuciwith whom he has been in a civil union for a few months. The lawyer, an expert at Federculture, has already enjoyed a long time at Maxxi (from 2018 to 2021) as responsible for personal data, having arrived there when the head of the museum Giovanna Melandri.
Two years ago, immediately after being appointed president of the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Alessandro Giuli confirmed Francesco Spano in the role of general secretary, which gave the latter the opportunity to express her husband as a collaborator paid. After all, Siegfried RanucciRaitre investigative program hosts, under burning preview for the next episode of the Report: a “new Boccia case” to the Ministry of Culture, but “masculine“.
The lawyer Marco Carnabuci (Favorite)
The 2017 story, inspired by The Hyenas
The name of Francesco Spano is not new to the judicial news and the political-governmental debate: in 2017 the official was involved in an opaque business funding granted to an LGBTQIA+ associationwhich emerged as a cultural reality but, they discovered The Hyenas in investigation, she was committed to much more, including paid sex. Spano was the leader of Unar at the timethe government’s anti-racist discrimination office based in the Presidency of the Council, and was a member of the association in question.
The case then ended with the resignation of the person directly involved, not without controversial and judicial consequences: the Court of Auditors examined the matter further by opening an investigation file, which however did not end in anything . In the meantime, in fact, Francesco Spano had resigned and the Presidency of the Council had withdrawn the funds allocated to the association. There was one too defamation complaint present at the Prosecutor’s Office Grossetoaccordingly the officer’s reputation was damaged.
But this year the Court of Tuscany put a decisive word on the matter, that is. dismissing Spano’s appeal and ordering him to pay legal costs. In fact, it is written in the device that The Hyenas that they have done journalistic work that guarantees the “objective truth of the story” and that “the purpose of the entire service broadcast was an investigation aimed at revealing facts of undoubted gravity, related to public money in the form of funding for a dedicated association, through their clubs, to illegal activities”.
Melandri: Carnabuci at Maxxi when Spano was not there
“Maxxi called the lawyer Marco Carnabuci in June 2018, when Francesco Spano had nothing to do with the museum.” The former president of the museum, Giovanna Melandri, clarifies this in a statement in which she says: “What is going on is the settling of a terrible score by the homophobic right and yet another demonstration of this government’s inability to manage rigorously, transparently and the coherence of. cultural policies in Italy”.
Melandri details the dates: “On May 3, 2018, the general secretary of Maxxi Pietro Barrera asked the director of Federculture (the employers’ association to which the Maxxi Foundation is associated) to indicate the names of the experts if the role of Data Processor could be assigned. of the data (mandatory figure after a European regulation that would come into force on May 25 Federculture suggested the name of Carnabuci, who already held training seminars for them on these same subjects. The cards are available to those who have the seriousness and patience . read them. That’s it”, says Melandri, holding the documents.
“The personal affairs of Spano and Carnabuci belong only to them and the contracts ordered after the change in the leadership of the Foundation in December 2022 belong only to the president Alessandro Giuli and exclusively to him “, he also emphasizes. “I only agree with Giuli on one thing: this ‘monster’ is never beautiful. But Alessandro Giuli and Giorgia Meloni should first look inside their own house: the appointment of Spano as the leader of the Sons was public and vehemently opposed. The right, including the most homophobic fringes.