(ANSA) - FOGGIA, 03 JAN - With a letter sent to the union of Foggia, Franco Landella, the president of the city council Leonardo Iaccarino announced his resignation after the video in which he fires a blank gun from the balcony of his house to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.
"As I know - he writes - a remnant of my private life has become, in spite of myself, in the public domain. This has damaged my public image (which has always been impeccable) and the institution I represent. It is superfluous - he adds - to highlight that I am completely aware that in a city hostage of the mafia, in which guns shoot to kill, it is necessary to avoid any use, due to the strong symbolic disvalue they represent. I must put the interest of the institution I represent and of the whole city, which for responsibility center of the chronicle, and therefore make a painful but unavoidable gesture for me. (HANDLE).