“They attack me to hurt the government.” Today the Rai board of directors decides on the transmission – Corriere.it

The summons arrived in mid-June. The Libero journalist Filippo Facci – in these hours in the storm for the sexist remarks about the girl who denounced the son of Ignazio La Russa – warned by the Milan commissioner Giuseppe Petronzi for stalking.

To submit the request was the former partner, mother of his two childrenwith whom he ended the relationship in 2019.

In the center 15 emails in 14 months sent by the journalist in the middle of the separationin particular for the sale of the house in which the two lived and for the maintenance requests that Facci claimed he could not honor because he was in serious economic difficulties.

For Facci it would only be a pretext for another cause: in the last 4 months he filed me 4 lawsuits. And to think I left her.

The provision of the Anti-Crime Division speaks of repeated insults towards the woman. We had no intention of appealing to the Tar, we wanted to drop the matter. But now we are re-evaluating this possibility, explains the lawyer Luca Procaccini. We will file a reprimand request ourselves.

Today the decision of Rai

And of Facci’s editorial on the La Russa jr case, contested by the asking opposition the cancellation of the daily strip that Rai intends to entrust to himwe will talk this morning in company board of directors. Yesterday, alongside all the members of the Democratic Party of the Supervisory Commission, the dem leader, Elly Schlein, took sides: Make us not compatible with public television – he said -. There is a Rai Ethics Committee that has to deal with it. Before that, the RAI employee adviser, Riccardo Lagan, had written a letter to the top management to ask if the journalist was in line with the ethical values ​​and mission of the public service. Of the same tenor the question filed by Green Angelo Bonelli in the Supervisory Committee, according to which certain positions cannot be reduced to “slips”. The president of the commission, Barbara Floridia (M5S), assuring the attention of the Supervisory Authority, said she expected a serious and rigorous stance on the part of the company.

The journalist was defended by Senator Maurizio Gasparri (FI), a member of the Supervisory Authority, and Undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi.

This morning in the Rai board of directors the issue will be raised by the councilors Lagan and Francesca Bria (Pd share) and probably also by the president Marinella Soldi, who has already defined the journalist’s words as unacceptable. And so it will be difficult for the top management to turn a blind eye, even if the temptation would be stronggiven that Facci is not even contracted.

Yesterday someone in the company pointed out that there have been slip-ups in Rai, and they have been forgiven, such as the gaffe on Ukraine by Lucia Annunziata and Antonio Di Bella live on Rai3. In this case, it adds, Facci also apologized. He did it already on Sunday, claiming for his own thought. Ed did it again yesterday, claiming that the attacks on him are just a pretext to shell the government. As for the hypothesis of remaining in charge of the show, he said: Why shouldn’t I? I’m not going to go on the wrong side, I’m the one before.

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