The intent was noble, to raise awareness on the issue of violence against women. But it did not go as they expected in Rai and it ended with the schedule changed at the last moment. Preamble. Franca Leosini had chosen the Rai Storia programming on Sunday with an ad hoc schedule in view of the international day (which occurs tomorrow) against violence against women. In the lineup there was also the replica of the episode of Accursed stories dedicated to Luca Varani, convicted as instigator of the attack on Lucia Annibali, scarred with acid three years earlier. To move the calm of the weekend we thought Michele Anzaldi, secretary of the Rai Supervisory Commission and deputy of Italia viva, the same party in which Lucia Annibali plays today, elected two years ago in the Democratic Party and then moved to the party founded by Renzi. “Rewriting the history of some painful news stories by giving the floor to the perpetrators of the violence, just on the eve of such a symbolic day, what editorial logic does it respond to?” Asked Anzaldi. The television issue has become political in an instant. Result: Rai has decided to back down, canceling the incriminated episode (and also that of the Circeo massacre with the interview with Angelo Izzo).
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Lucia Annibali had also expressed her disapproval (on Facebook): «This is an interview that was already considered inappropriate at the time, which hurt me then, and which hurts me even more today. A decision that has little to do with the sense of care, respect and commitment. For this reason, even today, as then, I choose not to participate in the spectacle of my life. I choose to exercise my right not to feel honored ». Today, he adds, “I generally think that for certain subjects the most appropriate places to represent their version of events are the courts. After that, I think the main theme is another: in view of a day dedicated to male violence against women, it seems counterintuitive to me to build a schedule by proposing cases of men who have committed serious acts of violence against women. If we have to pay homage to women, we give the floor to them, their stories, their feelings. I don’t think it is such a strange thing to ask. ‘
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Franca Leosini is desolate: «I am a soldier of the company – he explains -, so I accepted the provisions, God forbid. But I am sorry because in that confrontation with Varani I was very hard, almost violent with him. It is a story that had impressed me because I could not put together the absolute normality of a person with the atrocious gesture for which he was responsible. Any gesture of will is unacceptable, but that was a gesture of utmost horror and utmost cowardice, implemented moreover through an intermediary. Worse than a gunshot, worse than a stab: it meant forcing a woman to live without the life that belonged to her, without the image of her face, her smile, her skin ».
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