Over a public radio broadcast, an Italian journalist urged Italy’s former populist Interior Minister and leader of the League party Matteo Salvini to ‘commit suicide’, causing a wave of solidarity in favor of the country’s most popular politician.
On September 4th, Fabio Sanfilippo, editor-in-chief at RadioRai, took to Facebook to post a hateful comment against Salvini, Italy’s La Repubblica reports.
“You should hang yourself. You are going to lose 20 to 25 percent of the voting intentions, do you know? And what will you do? You have no work, you do not know how to do anything, you do not have the seat of a deputy, you have lost the post of minister. It is true, you are in Parliament, but without the life that you had the habit of leading, within six months you will shoot yourself, dear enemy.”
“Dear enemy”? You see? He slipped his tongue. There is no such thing as a neutral media or journalism. You are either on one side or the other. The difference is that the leftist side always LIES and pretends to be neutral while the RIGHT side usually kinda agrees in the open that they are on the right. Like we do here, yes we openly admit that we are biased right-wingers.
Sanfilippo finished his post with this unsavory language: “I am sorry for your daughter, but she will have time to recover, it is enough that you are replaced by competent people.”
Although Sanfilippo has since deleted the post, this hasn’t prevented an investigation into the matter from being opened.
Upon hearing about the cruel and uncouth language, many political opponents of Salvini have condemned Sanfilippo’s words.
In response to Sanfilippo’s language, Democratic Party MP Michele Anzaldi said, “These attacks against Salvini are serious and unacceptable.”
Former head of the Italian government Matteo Renzi, also commented on the matter, saying, “I fought like a lion against Matteo Salvini. And all together we sent him home. But to see a journalist from RAI who talks about Salvini’s suicide and his jokes about his daughter is unworthy of public service. Solidarity with Salvini.”
Over the weekend, in the face of controversy over his disgusting comments, Sanfilippo was quick to backpedal, saying that his reference to suicide “was not an invitation to shoot himself, but a statement that he was eliminated politically”.
Whether anyone believes Sanfilippo is another story. Whether he loses his job also remains to be seen.
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