Ill wind grievance

A leading TV presenter has accused bosses at Italy’s RAI state broadcaster network of forcing her to share a room with a colleague with chronic flatulence — or as she put it in a formal complaint, “noisy, repeated and malodorous bodily emissions”. Dania Mondini, 58, said the colleague, who has not been publicly named, was also a prodigious burper. She claims it was part of a campaign of intimidation against her due to professional rivalry. When she demanded to be moved to another room, her treatment by managers became worse — she was assigned “banal” news reading assignments and faced “verbal aggression”, she claimed. Two other journalists also said they could no longer bear to share workspace with the malodorous colleague. Managers allegedly told them they would lose their jobs. Mondini took the public broadcaster to court and the case has dragged on for four years, coming to light again after prosecutors ordered fresh investigations.