Rai: "The choice made by Montesano in Dancing with the stars is unacceptable"

“What happened last night in Dancing with the stars, broadcast on Rai1, is unacceptable.

It remains inadmissible for a competitor to a public service television program to wear a T-shirt with a motto and a symbol that evoke one of the darkest pages in our history.

We apologize to all viewers and, in particular, to those who have paid and suffered personally because of the Nazi-fascism to which that symbolism refers.

It is therefore Rai's decision to interrupt Enrico Montesano's participation in the Saturday evening broadcast Dancing with the stars ”.

This is the press release published on the Rai Press Office website with which the Viale Mazzini Company takes a clear and unequivocal position on what happened during the Rai1 broadcast.

Enrico Montesano is therefore out of “Dancing with the stars”

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Rai judged the actor's choice to be "unacceptable", who during the rehearsals of the show wore a T-shirt with the symbol of the Decima Mas, the assault flotilla of the fascist navy that fought against the partisans after the armistice, and on his shoulders D'Annunzio's motto “Memento audere semper”. 

An apology on Facebook was not enough for the actor

: "I am deeply sorry and embittered", wrote Montesano after the controversy held court all day.

"I am a collector of shirts, I have that of Mao, of the USSR, but I do not agree with this thought. There was no intention in me to promote political messages or apology for fascism from which I am profoundly distant. a free and democratic man. I believe in the values ​​of the Constitution and I deeply apologize to those who have felt offended and upset. It was naïve. I have nothing to do with Nazi-Fascism and all totalitarianisms and I deeply despise them. ".

To denounce the episode, on social media, was Selvaggia Lucarelli

, judge of the show hosted by Milly Carlucci on Rai1: "From yesterday's images I see Montesano rehearsing with the T-shirt of the Decima Mas which, if anyone escapes, is a military formation that fought alongside the Nazis against the partisans, as well as a symbol of neo-fascism ".

And to a user who asked her why she did not immediately raise the problem, the journalist explained that she did not notice it during the live broadcast, when the actor's recorded clip aired.

A news that immediately inflamed the debate: "But yes, now everything is fine, Nazi uniforms exchanged for carnival disguises, Roman greetings, fascist commemorations, black faces, you want him to be a nostalgic actor with a T-shirt from the Decima Mas. Pure you who are going to look ",

The position taken by the RAI director, Riccardo Laganà, is tough:

"I take note of the company's choice towards Mr. Montesano. But the ethical line is more credible when the presenter, managers and authors responsible for the editorial control of a content, moreover registered ". 

On the same line, the Anpi

, which urged the intervention of the Supervisory Commission against "a shame that offends the victims of Nazi-Fascist crime and the Resistance", then applauds the expulsion of Montesano: "We learn from the press that Enrico Montesano was excluded from the program Dancing with the stars. A dutiful decision that has met the indignation of many and many democrats and anti-fascists ". 

In the morning,

with a post on his Telegram account, uploading a photo of him with the PSI card dated 1976, behind him an image of Che Guevara and the words "Happy Sunday friends! let us leave the exploitation to others! ".

A post edited after a few minutes, deleting the image and leaving only the comment.

On the web, many have criticized the actor, who has already ended up at the center of the controversy in recent months for the no vax positions, asking for his expulsion. 

"Yesterday a very bad page was written

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For

, councilor for health of the Lazio Region, "

now nostalgic for the twenty-year period, is a shame. Rome is a city Gold Medal of resistance, perhaps Montesano has forgotten it".

: "Someone try to show up on German public TV with the SS symbols and then let us know". 

At the end of the day,

together with his agent Settimio Colangelo to examine the situation

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This was announced by the actor himself, after his exclusion from Dancing with the stars.

Montesano claims that the t-shirt at the center of the controversy "was seen by Rai representatives both during the rehearsals of his artistic performance and during the recording of the same, and in the editing without any objection" and that the edited material "was further examined" without objection to regularity.