Insults to Zangrillo a case. Meloni, tone it down
Minister Paolo Zangrillo was the protagonist of a back-and-forth with the public, which also resulted in booing and insults during a debate on Saturday evening at the Festa dell'Unità in Turin
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It could have been a technical rehearsal of dialogue and turned into a brawl. The protagonist of a back-and-forth with the public was Minister Paolo Zangrillo, which also resulted in booing and insults during a debate on Saturday evening at the Festa dell'Unità in Turin.
The holder of the Public Administration received the solidarity of his party, Forza Italia, as well as the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who called on everyone to 'tone down', and the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
The local PD replied: 'The minister's approach to the debate surprised us greatly. We did not expect a succession of provocations'. Zangrillo had been invited on Saturday evening to the Festa dell'Unità to discuss ius scholae with the vice-president of the Senate Anna Rossomando (PD): a topic on which, as he himself had said before starting, the positions between the two parties are not far apart.
But tempers heated up when the minister began to talk about the situation in Turin from the point of view of urban security: 'We must not make life impossible for citizens, Corso Giulio Cesare is so dangerous that I forbade my daughter to go there, the only thing Mayor Lo Russo did for the suburbs was to legalise Askatasuna'.
From the audience, mostly made up of elderly Dem sympathisers (but no social centre activists), many started to raise their voices, to shout and to bicker with the minister ('what about CasaPound?', 'what does Piantedosi do?', 'you're always the castor oil guys'), who stood his ground and even responded to a 'shame on you' with a 'shame on you'.
