Former Italian official sues Vatican panel member over gay remarks

Former Italian official sues Vatican panel member over gay remarks

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Giulio Tremonti, a former economy minister in Italy, said he was suing 30-year-old journalist Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui, a member of the new Vatican financial reform panel, over tweets she made claiming he is gay.

Tremonti said he was also suing Alessandro Sallustri, editor-in-chief of Il Giornale daily that printed tweets by Chaouqui.

Chaouqui has been named last month the only female and only Italian on 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 was quoted as saying in news reports.

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”.

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Image: news.com.au

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