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Santanchè to Stand Trial for Defamation After Immunity Ruling

The ruling schedules a September 16, 2025 hearing in Rome on her July 2023 Senate remarks defending her role in Visibilia Editore.

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Overview

  • Judge Alfonso Sabella ruled that Santanchè’s July 5, 2023 Senate statements about ex-partner Giuseppe Zeno fall outside parliamentary immunity.
  • The defamation trial, set in Rome’s tribunal, centers on remarks delivered during a televised Senate defense of her involvement with Visibilia Editore.
  • Zeno, a former minority shareholder, lodged the complaint after those remarks coincided with a Milan probe into alleged accounting fraud at Visibilia.
  • Santanchè’s defense argues her comments were truthful and constitutionally protected under Article 68.
  • The defamation proceedings will run alongside a separate Milan investigation into financial irregularities at the publisher she founded.