"Too bad that on such serious and delicate things we resort to an irony so heavy and out of place".
So the deputy of Italy Viva Gennaro Migliore comments on the tweet, later removed, of the vice president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa who was invited to use the Roman greeting to avoid contagions .
"I am reminded of how much our country has suffered for that Roman greeting which was the hallmark of a political / criminal movement like fascism. More sobriety is necessary for those who hold public offices. Memory is an indispensable patrimony for every citizen" , he concludes.
"With today's release on the Coronavirus he managed to make three gaffes at one time . We fear it will be a record, in the ranking of the most shameful tweets of the year" specifies Silvia Fregolent, deputy of Italia Viva, about a tweet from the Senator of Fratelli d'Italia Ignazio La Russa on the Coronavirus. "La Russa has joked in one fell swoop about an international emergency and, in some hundreds of lethal cases, about a tragedy; she instigated, always joking, to commit a crime because suggesting the Roman greeting represents an invitation to apology Finally, betraying the courage typical of the ideology he says he professes, he clumsily tried to divert attention from his responsibilities by placing the blame on a collaborator ". "We find that La Russa's statements are not funny at all. We consider them very serious indeed. If you really have courage, please apologize," he concludes.
"Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa of Fratelli d'Italia prides himself on being vice-president of the Senate. It is a pity that today he comes out on his social networks, tackling a serious topic such as coronavirus with disarming alarmism and superficiality. Then, perhaps realizing that his words could stink of apology of fascism, he canceled everything. Maybe while writing it he was thinking of the past years, when as regional secretary of the Youth Front he went through the streets of Milan together with his friends in the dormitory. it is still not contagious. " So the senator of the 5 Star Movement Paola Taverna comments on Facebook the tweet on the Chinese virus that appeared on the profile of the vice president of the Senate, in which it was written: "Do not shake hands with anyone, the infection is lethal. Use the Roman greeting, antivirus and antimicrobial. " Shortly after the post was removed and, in another tweet, La Russa explained that it was one of his collaborators who wrote the "ironic post". "Maybe the virus might sound out of place and I told him to remove it," he added.
