Saviano on the Scurati case, how can you still work in Rai?

(ANSA) – PERUGIA, APRIL 21 – “When they called me and told me about Antonio Scurati I replied: have you only now noticed what is happening? Only now have you realized what it was possible to authorize do to these? But how can you still work in Rai? How can you still be on the Board of Directors, to be guests on broadcasts? Everything is controlled there, everything is perpetually constructed so that the propaganda is closed, with the sole aim of preventing it whatever light comes on. A year ago they censored my program, Insider, many remained silent, thinking it was my problem.” Roberto Saviano reiterated this on Saturday evening during a meeting at the International Journalism Festival, which ends today in Perugia, speaking about the cancellation of Antonio Scurati’s monologue on April 25th from Serena Bortone’s “Che will be” program, broadcast on Rai 3 “Be careful – said Saviano -: they want the opposition, they want an extremist opposition, they want those they consider radicals, radicalism, they want it to show that they are democrats and the others are the attackers. What instead they don’t want is a certain type of narrative, in this case regarding my story or Scurati’s, they don’t want a certain story about organized crime and they don’t want a certain historical story.” “This is because it also speaks to them – continued Saviano -. When I speak to their electorate about these stories they listen to me, they have always listened to me, about drug trafficking stories, about mafia stories, about corruption stories, about how much a vote costs , on how much a seat costs. To be elected you need 50 thousand euros, if you have it you are already elected, that’s what the investigations tell you: those in Catania and those in Bari have shown you again how much a seat costs. This is what they don’t want to be told, because they fear that if you are believed on these topics you will also be believed when it comes to NGOs, when it comes to something else. And then they have to stop you.” (HANDLE).