After a period away from the prying eyes of social media and cameras, the chef, Selviaggia Lucarelli's partner and face of the well-known Rai program "È semper midday!", Lorenzo Biagiarelli , breaks his silence on the case of the restaurateur from Lodi who took her own life . And he does so by publishing a video where he retraces what happened from the day the story went viral on the internet, telling his version of the facts.
“I can't and don't want to apologize,” he immediately makes it clear. Then a reconstruction of the story of that January 12th in which the owner's response to a customer who criticized the restaurant for having dined near a homosexual couple and a disabled boy went viral online. “I see the review, it seems false to me and I write it,” he explains, underlining however that he has carefully censored the name of the restaurant and all sensitive data. The ultimate goal? Doing "debunking", that is, dismantling a piece of news, criticizing those who had exaggerated the issue, in search of a few more likes. But the accusation of having unleashed a storm of hatred came anyway.
After the woman took her own life, "Selvaggia and I were inundated with messages and calls", and many claimed that "our actions were directly responsible for the owner's suicide". «Giovanna Pedretti's suicide saddens me but I cannot and do not want to apologize, even if many have suggested that I do so. Because if I did I would be yet another person who uses his death for their own advantage." "I prefer to keep the stigma rather than try the path of pity", he adds before confirming his choice not to return to TV, where he has already been missing for more than a month.
