The hunters get mad at Flavio Insinna, guilty of having said that “hunting is not a sport”. During the December 27 episode of the Rai 1 program The legacy the conductor had commented on a quiz question expressing his opposition to hunting. His words infuriated Federcaccia who wrote a letter of protest to Rai, considering a possible legal action for defamation and inviting the Italian hunters to stop following the program and to avoid buying the products advertised during the show. The case landed on social media and fans sided with Insinna, the hashtag #iostoconflavioinsinna quickly climbed the trends.
“Once again during the television broadcast The legacy, broadcast in the pre-evening slot on the network directed by her “writes the president of Federcaccia, Massimo Buconi, in a letter to the director of Rai 1, the president of Rai and the members of the parliamentary commission for general guidance and supervision,” the conductor Flavio Insinna indulged in discriminatory and offensive comments against the hunting activity and its practitioners “.
“Insinna’s behavior, not new to this kind of interventions, is made even more serious to be implemented by taking advantage of its notoriety through a medium, that of television, which guarantees a wide following and the total absence of a contradiction on opinions. expressed in relation to hunting and hunters, denigrating a category of citizens who exercise a fully legitimate activity, provided for and regulated by the laws of the State “, reads the letter published online on the Fidc website. The “Federcaccia has given a mandate to its lawyers to evaluate the details to bring a legal proceeding for defamation against the tenant and the Network”.
“In addition, perfectly aware of the ‘rules of the show’ and aware that a program like the one in question and whoever hosts it are worth for how much economy they generate and advertising they bring to the channel’s coffers, it will be our care to invite all our subscribers and the Italian hunters and their families – a potential pool of a few million spectators – to no longer follow The legacy and to prefer other brands than those advertised before, during and immediately after the game “.
The issue has become a trend on Twitter where Insinna has received tons of solidarity messages from fans and also from a number of organizations. “Enpa supports Insinna and thanks him for having expressed the thoughts of the vast majority of Italians”, writes Enpa. “Our solidarity with Flavio Insinna, on the side of the planet and animals and alongside many of our battles, who only reiterated a clear concept: hunting is not a sport”, the Greenpeace tweet.
