In the aftermath of the interview in which Franco Di Mare announced on ‘Che tempo che fa’ that he was suffering from mesothelioma, Rai CEO Roberto Sergio had undertaken to send the journalist all the documentation requested from the company in previous years. And today, during the Supervisory hearing he announced that Di Mare “was sent yesterday, via certified e-mail, the documentation he had requested”.
Guest of Fabio Fazio, last April 28, Di Mare had explained that he was suffering from a very bad tumor linked “to the presence of asbestos in the air which is taken in by breathing in parcels of asbestos, without realizing it”. A tumor probably related to the period in which the journalist worked as a correspondent in the Balkans. The documents were therefore also used by the journalist to define his position with respect to possible service cases.
During the interview with Fabio Fazio, Di Mare had complained about the attitude held by Rai in the face of his illness: “all the management groups have disappeared, not the current one, but the previous one, the one before that – he stated -. I can understand that there are legal and trade union reasons, but I asked Rai for my service status which is my right, the places I have been, so I could try to ask the trade associations what to do… they have all disappeared I can come to understand, and it’s not that I have to do so, that there may be legal or trade union reasons, what I understand less is the absence on a human level of people to whom I spoke on a first-name basis, because I was a Rai manager. they disappeared, they denied themselves to me on the phone. I find only one adjective when faced with such an attitude: repugnant”.
