Filippo Facci, Rai could block its program: “It makes secondary victimization”

Rai is considering suspending the new programme Philip Faci. It was supposed to be one of the new broadcasts of the Rai2 season, entitled “I Facci yours”, but the editorialist of Free ended up in the crosshairs of Viale Mazzini after the controversy over the journalist’s statements about the girl who denounced the son of Ignatius LaRussa, Leonard Apachefor sexual assault. It was to denounce what the journalist wrote in the newspaper Sandro Rutolo, information manager of the Pd. “It is better for Rai, for the public service, to entrust a program to Filippo Facci” which on Free speaks of the victim as “a 22-year-old girl was undoubtedly high on cocaine before she was also high by Leonardo Apache La Russa? Can public TV be entrusted to those who make secondary victimization?”.

Then he asks: “And what does the Rai ethics committee say? Can the public service allow such a reading of women? Think about it, managers of viale Mazzini. The public service belongs to everyone but it cannot be for sexists, racists and fascist”.

The controversy

The other opposition parties are also protesting against the language used by Facci. Carlo calendar on Twitter he defines the journalist as a “troglodyte who in any other European country, after writing this stuff here, would no longer even write in the condominium newspaper. Ethics, decency and good taste these strangers”. The parent company M5S in the Rai Supervision Commission, Dario Carotenuto, defined Facci’s tone as a “public disservice, far from what we should offer to Italians”. AND Riccardo Magi, secretary of Più Europa, attacked: “I read that he will be entrusted with a strip before Tg2 to ‘deal with the salient points of the moment in an irreverent and ironic way, offering reading suggestions, even heretical ones, between news, customs, culture, society and politics’. I ask the CEO of Rai Sergius: will this be the ‘heretical’ irony that from now on we have to expect every night in prime time?”.

The councilor of Viale Mazzini is also calling for an intervention on the broadcast Frances Bria, economist appointed to the Democratic Party: “The contents expressed by Filippo Facci are incompatible with the values ​​and policies of the Public Service, as regards the protection of gender equality and a strong commitment against all forms of violence against women. The #RAI leaders suspend the journalist’s streak”

The world of print

Facci’s words aroused the indignation of the world of the press. “The laws, the ethical norms, the Venice Manifesto. But first of all the principle of humanity and primary respect for people make what is written intolerable”, commented the Equal Opportunities Commission of the FNSI, Order of Journalists in a joint note , Usigrai and Giulia Giornaliste, reserving the right to present a report to the Disciplinary Council of the Milan Odg. “There is no right to criticize in a language of such violence, which tramples on every rule of human solidarity and common sense – he continues the note – and the fact that the complaint of the young woman has turned into a ‘political case’ is not a screen, as if this would allow the outrage against the plaintiff”.

Finally, the signatories of the press release underline that “it is not the ‘irrevering and ironic’ tones that disturb, but the total insensitivity to a problem that upsets women, all women, with an approach willing to violate any code of civil respect”.