From Pirate Motorboat to Free Toll: Unverified Videos Published by Deputy (and Journalist) Borrelli

The Campania Coast Guard has stated that the episode reported this weekend and that supposedly occurred in the Gulf of Naples , has actually never happened in the last year. We are talking about the video that went viral on social media and showed a motorboat cutting off a Caremar ferry in the Procida Channel . The video was published on his page by MP Francesco Emilio Borrelli who has made social media the megaphone for his political battles and the reports that many citizens send him. But in this, as in many other cases, the news in question was fake news , a hoax in short. Borrelli , who in addition to being a politician elected by the people is also a journalist, should be the first to know that content should first be verified and then published.

The unfiltered fakes published by Francesco Emilio Borrelli

For two reasons, the first is to avoid publishing news that later turns out to be false . The second is related to the resulting media case . This forces people to comment and discuss an episode that in reality did not happen. Of course, journalists also have a great responsibility, having now made Borrelli their primary source. And as can be seen from this story, even some colleagues have lost the habit of verifying an alleged news item . The deputy was the protagonist of another 'case'.

Free toll for the toll booth attendant's son and the video of the speedboat that cuts off the ferry

Among the many videos published on his page, many of which were transformed into news by the local media , there is one that pilloried a father, daughter and the latter's boyfriend. With the face of the former even prominently displayed in the video . We are talking about the young couple who met the father who was the toll booth attendant and who for this reason would not have paid the toll on the ring road. Beyond arrogating to himself the right to judge those who film and then make public a scene of this kind, automatically subjecting himself to the opinion of users, why did Borrelli take it for granted that the behavior of that man and the two boys were fraudulent ? Why subject people to media pillorying , judging them for only a handful of seconds?

The Coast Guard's denial

Even the majority of users who commented on the post responded by highlighting this problem. Without considering that the father himself, after having let the young couple pass, perhaps paid the toll out of his own pocket , 'offering' it to the boys. To return to the case of the motorboat and the ferry , here is the note from the local Coast Guard , issued after opening an internal investigation : " From the investigations carried out, the video would not be attributable to any event that occurred, at least in the last year - writes the Coast Guard - at the moment it is not excluded that the film was reworked and edited to become, as it is, a suggestive document of certain interest on the platforms ". This does not take away, obviously, that true or not true and regardless of when the event occurred, these are behaviors that must not generate emulation , because they are extremely dangerous and their exhibition is an absolutely wrong practice .

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Andrea Aversa