“There were some strange clues this morningsince early morning”: Gaia Tortora, As a guest of Fabio Fazio on Che tempo che fa on Rai 3, she returned to talk about her father Enzo’s ordeal. Arrested in June 1983 on false charges of drug trafficking. His innocence was only recognized in 1986 when the Naples Court of Appeal acquitted him. The conductor then died in 1988. The La7 journalist will also report on this story in the book Head Up and Forward, which will be published on March 21. He admitted: “It cost me, like all books when they are written. The moment they are written is therapy. I wasn’t resigned to having to talk about it afterwards.”
Tortora said of her father Enzo, “Dad was it extremely ironic. They joked with Piero Angela, with other friends … and I thought when I saw these pictures that they took away the possibility of happiness and lightness from an entire family.” Recalling the moment of the arrest, the journalist revealed: “after nothing was the same”. And again: “What still pains me a lot today is how the information has treated this horrendous site and unfortunately no less responsible than a certain Malagiustizia”.
At the end, the Tortora book closes with an excerpt of a letter from the father to his daughter Gaia. Fazio read part of it at the end of the interview: “I know that there is room for me in your desires and that, believe me, I’m happy about that and it helps me a lot“.