Scurati case, Rai Supervision rejects the hearing of Corsini and Bortone. And the controversy erupts over the question to Senator Ester Mieli – -

There Rai Supervisory Commissionwith the compact vote of the majority, this morning rejected the request for a hearing, put forward by the PD deputy Stefano Graziano, the director of Rai Insights Paolo Corsini and the presenter of the Rai 3 program What will be Serena Bortone, after non-participation of Antonio Scurati on last Saturday’s broadcast.

All the forces of opposition they instead voted in favor of the proposal. At this point only the managing director Roberto Sergio and the general director Giampaolo Rossi will be heard in the session of 8 May in which they had been summoned before the Scurati case broke out.

Meanwhile new case in Rai is raised by Fratelli d’Italia in the Supervisory Commission. The deputy Augusta Montaruli reported that this morning, during Radio Me too on Radio1, the senator from her own party was asked Esther Mieli if she were Jewish, as part of a discussion about student protests in universities over the war in Palestine. The parliamentarian then proposed to listen to Rai leaders also on this point, assuming that the presenter of the program is also summoned Giorgio Zanchini. Faced with this position, the opposition asked to reconsider the hearing of Paolo Corsini and Serena Bortone on the Scurati case, I believe that double standards are being used. The Fdi parliamentarian underlined that what happened at Radio Me too represents “a very serious case”, which “borderes on anti-Semitism”.

«The Rai Supervisory Commission expresses its opinion unanimously to condemn what happened this morning in the broadcast Radio Me too. Full solidarity with Ester Mieli» asked the Italia Viva deputy Maria Elena Boschi, vice-president of the Rai supervisory commission. “On behalf of the entire commission, I express this unanimously full solidarity with Senator Ester Mieli for what happened this morning on a Rai radio broadcast – he says Barbara Floridapresident of the supervisory commission – Being asked a direct question about one’s religious faith represents one violation of the most intimate spheremade even more serious by the journalist’s intention to connect his colleague’s opinion to his religious beliefs” he concludes.

The President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa defines what happened «serious and disturbingTO”. «For weeks there have been demonstrations throughout Italy intolerance towards Israel and Jews and a question like the one posed by the host is completely unacceptable – adds La Russa – A person’s opinion cannot in any way be connected to the religion they profess. May my sincere solidarity and affectionate closeness reach my friend Ester Mieli and the Jewish community” she concludes.