"I am not a guarantor against drugs, it is death. If this boy is not considered a drug dealer he will have my apologies. Then he will pass himself off in that building. Period. And I will not go and make the arrests. But glad that Italy knows that there it passes. " So the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, in connection with Agorà, on Rai 3, returning to the controversy after he rang the intercom in a popular Bologna neighborhood asking: 'Is your son a drug dealer?'.
Yesterday squares against Bibbiano between Matteo Salvini and the Sardines . In a climate of total opposition but without any accident, the Reggio Emilia town symbol of the 'Angels and Demons' investigation, for one day it was divided in half, invaded by the media from all over Italy: in Piazza della Repubblica, the League presents on the stage some family members involved in the story of the alleged illegal custody. A hundred meters away, in Piazza Libero Grassi, Mattia Santori on the other hand relaunches his anti-hate and anti-populist message, on the notes of Bella Ciao. On balance, from the first unofficial estimates, the numerical challenge seems to have been won by the sardines, with over 3000 people, against the thousand collected by the former Minister of the Interior. Santori even says that they won "7 to 0. We in the square seven times more than the League", attacks the Bolognese spokesman. And then, he adds, the Northern League square "is built, there are real people here. There are those who make politics one day every five years, here I'm sure there are people who make politics in everyday life. It is clear that just buy that part of the country that comes to the streets only because there are elections. "
The sardines, claim two activists from Reggio opening the event in Bibbiano, are "a colorful sea and they have jammed the hate machine. We chose how to do it but this square was made by itself, and it was enough to leave the house and go to the real world". Two days after the high regional vote also the clash with the Democratic Party. Against the ex-Minister of the Interior, the comment of the dem secretary, Nicola Zingaretti, was very harsh: "Salvini - comments from Ferrara - looks more and more like a greaser, as in the sixteenth century, who goes around shops and shops spreading fear, hatred and despair ". Even the head of the police, Franco Gabrielli, attacks the choice of the former minister to intercom to an alleged drug dealer: "Stigmatized - he says - both those who do justice door to door and those who accuse the police indiscriminately".
An unprecedented stage that set up by the League: no party symbol, but only a large writing that will be the leitmotif of the whole event "Hands down from the children!". Salvini warns at the beginning that this is not a traditional League rally: "This is not a party evening, but an evening that should bring together all the good people because when it comes to defending children we should all be united", he says announcing the presence on stage "of the mother of little Tommy, the 18-month-old kidnapped and killed by three beasts and one of those beasts is already on prize permit". Then he explains that "the protagonists will be only mothers, dads and children.
Unfortunately - he adds - there are some hundreds of mothers and fathers and victims of injustice, but we asked 5 witnesses to speak also on behalf of those who are no longer there. "But then he cannot avoid throwing a punch in the sardines of the next square: "Sorry that a few meters away from here there is someone ready to make controversy: the good of the children - he reiterates - should unite everyone". So, one after the other, moms and dads involved in the investigation succeeded in telling their story. A mother reports that one of her daughters "has become adoptable" and following this trauma, the father, a partisan of the area, died. A dad therefore urged everyone, in case he noticed a problem in the neighbors "to invite them to have a coffee but not talk to social services".
