There is still controversy over the tweet of journalist Rula Jebreal who yesterday quoted "the crimes committed" by Giorgia Meloni's father, convicted of drug trafficking in Spain (at the time his father had already left the family).
Giorgia Meloni replies today:
"The tact of the Italian press which tells of my father's troubles, but omits a fundamental element in its bombastic titles. Everyone knows that my father left when I was just over a year old. Everyone knows that I chose to not to see him again at the age of eleven. Everyone knows that I never had contact with him again until his death. the many things that do not apply to me there is also the saying 'the sins of the fathers do not fall on the children'. Ps. Mrs. Jebreal, I hope you will be able to explain to the judge when and where I would have made the declaration that you attribute to me ", he the leader of FdI wrote on facebook.
The journalist wrote yesterday
: "Meloni is not guilty of the crimes committed by her father, but often exploits the crimes committed by some foreigners, to criminalize all immigrants, describing them as a security threat. In a democracy there are individual responsibilities, NOT guilt / collective punishment ".
Rula Jebreal, an Italian-Israeli journalist of Palestinian origin, who grew up in Israel and then moved to Italy, provoked a harsh reaction from the Brothers of Italy who, with several parliamentarians, intervened in defense of the party leader, expressing bewilderment at statements deemed offensive and " unworthy ".
The tweet caused
an avalanche of controversy
, even the M5s president
Conte
wrote a post in defense of Meloni: "This is mud on Giorgia Meloni. Me, Meloni and Fratelli d'Italia, with the M5S I fight them in all locations, but on a political level ".
"Rula, this is baseness. You don't do politics like that, much less journalism. What Meloni's father did has nothing to do with her. Delete this tweet which among other things has the only effect of bringing even more people to support FDI ", writes
Carlo Calenda
, leader of Action, responding to Rula Jebreal.
Salvini also intervened
on the issue
: "Whoever makes a political battle by attacking not the opponent, but mum, dad, children, wives or husbands, is a little man. Or a little woman. We democratically won the elections, get over it".
"The new Italian Prime Minister Meloni threatens to sue me for my tweet about the 'great replacement' plot. All autocrats use these threats to intimidate and silence those who call them into question and expose them. Mrs. Meloni: I am not intimidated. ! "wrote
Rula Jebreal
.
The story of Meloni's father dates back to 27 years ago, it was 1995, when in Spain her father Francesco Meloni was sentenced to nine years in prison for drug trafficking in the Canaries.
At the time, the leader of the Brothers of Italy had just reached the age of majority and for seven years she had broken ties with her parent who, when she was about one year old, had abandoned her, leaving her alone with her mother. she.
The news has reappeared in these days in the Spanish press.
