The Schiller Institute has received the following communication from Filippo Rossi, the Swiss-Italian journalist, who joined in the EIR Sept. 7 international press conference to “Shut Down the Ukrainian Hit List Targeting Americans and International Voices of Opposition.”
Rossi reported, “Three days ago, the day after the conference held by EIR, I got the news that a colleague and close friend, Mattia Sorbi, drove on a Ukrainian mine resulting in the death of his driver. He survived, saved by Russian military in the Kherson region, Ukraine. A day later, looking on the Myrotvorets website, I found out he was put on the list. Of course this is a scandal that must be addressed.”
Indeed, the Italian daily Il Giornale has covered Sorbi’s blacklisting. “Kiev ... surprisingly placed Sorbi’s profile on the notorious Myrotvorets blacklist, maintained by the government intelligence agency Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and affiliated with Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs. For the Ukrainians, Sorbi would be a ‘provocateur’ and an agent of the enemy intent on destabilizing Ukraine by promoting the Russian narrative. Sorbi allegedly moved from Mykolaiv to Aleksandrovka against the consent of the Ukrainian military. In his profile on Myrotvorets, the Ukrainians recall that in 2014 Sorbi traveled to the other side of the front, to the pro-Russian Donbass, and collaborated with Russian newspapers such as Zvezda. In addition, he is called ‘homophobic’ because in [the magazine] Tempi, in 2006, before his trip he signed an article against the ‘homosexual lobby,’ where it reads, ‘The international homosexual lobby, which has its strongholds in New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco and Brussels, is increasingly influential and determined to subvert the institution of the traditional family in favor of the recognition of the so-called reproductive rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.’ Il Fatto Quotidiano, on the other hand, recovered some posts written by Mattia Sorbi on Facebook in favor of Matteo Salvini, who was then Minister of the Interior.”
