Porta a Porta, blizzard over Concita Borrelli's words: 'Rape is in everyone'

"If we enter the sexual sphere of each of us, I say something terrible, strong: there is rape". The words pronounced on Porta a Porta by Concita Borrelli, who, in the segment of the programme relating to the Garlasco crime, immediately provoked a distancing from the columnist Elisabetta Cametti, who was on the link.

'Lay down arms and venom I will apologise', writes Borrelli on X. Even Bruno Vespa lets it be known that he will apologise, while the Director of Rai Paolo Corsini will start checks. Meanwhile, from the Privacy Guarantor comes a new warning to the media precisely on the Garlasco case reopened with the new investigative findings on Sempio's position. "Let's say something hard but in my opinion very realistic," said Concita Borrelli during a confrontation between studio guests on Porta a Porta. "If we enter the sexual sphere of each of us there is rape. There is that someone takes you and you take someone, in your head, in your dreams, in your imagination, we all have it and here it is not a question of being saints, bigots or murderers'.

A few hours later, the pundit apologised on X: 'Lay down your weapons and venom, enemies near and far, I will apologise,' he wrote, 'with sincerity, in the appropriate venues'. The editorial staff of the programme hosted by Bruno Vespa said they were 'sorry for what happened'. While the PD asked that the presenter himself should apologise. 'I will obviously also apologise in the next episode of Porta a Porta,' Vespa said. The director of the "Approfondimento", Paolo Corsini, promptly took action to initiate the verifications within his competence, as Rai announced. Rai's board member Roberto Natale recalls that Concita Borrelli 'is the same "pundit" who in September, in another Rai programme, had said she had a radar through which to recognise gays' and that 'the public service cannot offer the stage to those who seek to gain notoriety with offensive and inconsiderate words'.

The Democratic members of the RaI parliamentary supervisory committee 'consider the statements made during the Porta a Porta programme to be scandalous and extremely serious. Unacceptable words', they add, 'that trivialise the issue of sexual violence and are offensive towards women and all victims of abuse and violence'. In the midst of the controversy comes a new warning from the Privacy Guarantor to the media on Garlasco. The cue comes from the Rete 4 programme Quarta Repubblica, which published interceptions of a telephone call between Alberto Stasi and his former defender, Angelo Giarda. "We are witnessing a continuous and morbid spectacularization of a news story, in contrast with the principle of essentiality of information and likely to overstep the necessary respect for the person and his dignity," says the Authority, which "takes note of the removal of the television service" and will continue "to monitor the matter, also in the light of the complaints received from those concerned.