Luigi Tenco's family did not like Barbara Palombelli's monologue at the Sanremo Festival in which the journalist also referred to the singer-songwriter of Ciao amore ciao.
In an open letter, relatives accuse Palombelli of having spread "false news" and of "having trivialized a serious event" such as the death of Tenco in front of millions of spectators.
In particular, the passage of the monologue in which Palombelli affirmed: "Think that Luigi Tenco right here playing with a gun found his death".
"Add to this the fact that this and other serious affirmations - writes the Tenco family - would be the result of an interview with Gino Paoli who, as everyone knows and unlike Luigi Tenco, certainly sought death by suicide but without succeeding (fortunately). This chatter, full of ignorance on the subject on the one hand and inconsistency on the other, does not give credit to the category of journalists to which it belongs and not even to the public television service that has decided to show it on Rai1 , but above all it cannot be considered an honest criterion at the basis of damaging statements ".
The critics of the Tenco family are relaunched by the Rai directors Rita Borioni and Riccardo Laganà, who - after expressing "disappointment at the space granted to faces of Mediaset journalism" in Sanremo - underline that "between questionable balloons in the audience and forced monologues , here and there seems to have escaped editorial control by the top management ".
Borioni and Laganà apologize to the relatives of the singer-songwriter, they hope that "an appropriate and congruous space will be reserved on Rai1 to be able to calmly rectify the above" and ask "from now on that the artistic direction of the next edition of Sanremo be entrusted to a Rai internal so that the authentic values of the public radio and television service can be safeguarded in the best possible way ''.
"I only mentioned an interview of mine with Gino Paoli, who repeated the same words on several occasions. And I documented myself in the Rai archives", Barbara Palombelli merely replies.
The reference, in particular, is to the special 'Viva Mogol', aired on Rai1 on 24 September 2016, hosted by Massimo Giletti.
On that occasion Paoli explained, speaking of Tenco's death: "If I can make an inference, it is that he made a boutade in front of Dalida, 'now I shoot', and she was there. It may be possible, even if it is not possible. to verify anything and therefore it is useless to talk about it. Luigi was not a depressed person who had suicidal ideas. We were all troublemakers, we enjoyed making jokes like all boys of that age ".
