ROME
Business Standard
Rome, Aug 17 (IANS/AKI) A former economy minister in Italy said he was suing a woman member of the new Vatican financial reform panel, who is also a journalist, over tweets she made claiming he is gay.
Giulio Tremonti told the Ansa news agency that he was also suing Alessandro Sallustri, editor-in-chief of Il Giornale daily that printed tweets by 30-year-old journalist Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui.
Chaouqui was last month named the only female and only Italian to a panel to review the Vatican’s financial administration.
“Having nothing to do at all with two well known Vatican ‘lobbies’, I am taking legal action against Chaouqui,” Tremonti said.
Chaouqui reportedly made a number of controversial posts on Twitter before her appointment, including one in March when she called Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone “corrupt”.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.