Filippo Facci torpedoed by Rai after the disputed article in which he defined the alleged rape victim as " a 22-year-old girl undoubtedly high on cocaine before being high on Leonardo Apache La Russa ".

The TV company said this morning that it will not be airing the five-minute daily strip "I Facci Yours" originally announced for September. This was decided - informs a note from Viale Mazzini - by the managing director Roberto Sergio, having informed the President Marinella Soldi, in agreement with the Director of Investigation Paolo Corsini and, for the profiles within his competence, the General Manager Giampaolo Rossi. The space in the schedule will be covered by the extension of the Rai 2 morning program "I fatti tue.

After the protests of the opposition over Facci's editorial, the case also ended up in last week's board of directors meeting , during which the managing director Roberto Sergio explained that he did not want to be dragged along by anyone and announced that he would made a choice soon. The daily strip, in which the well-known polemicist was supposed to tackle the topics of the day with the irreverent cut that distinguishes him, had been announced since the end of September before the 1pm Tg2 . Now the program has been cancelled .

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni herself, answering a question about that editorial, had said that she sympathizes by nature with a girl who denounces.

(Unioneonline/L)

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