Junkie MPs protecting their privacy
ANSA (via) reports that a television prank which threatened to expose widespread drug use among Italian MPs was suspended on Tuesday. The segment was due to be included in Le Iene (The Hyenas), a popular satire show which began a new series on Tuesday.
The show secretly tested 50 lawmakers for drug use with the results showing that one in three had apparently taken drugs in the previous 36 hours.
A total of 12 tested positive for cannabis and four for cocaine, according to Le Iene.
Amid parliamentary uproar over the prank, Italy’s privacy authority intervened and ordered the piece to be deleted from the show.
La Iene claims that the programme wouldn’t have violated the privacy of the MPs because their faces and voices would have been masked during broadcasting .
Saturday 14 Oct 2006 | Paul | Italy
