Vannacci accuses the left, Tajani evokes Calabresi: the clash over political violence flares up

The reciprocal accusations between the centre-right and centre-left, of fuelling a climate of violence that unfolds mainly on social media, are also breaking out in the election campaign for the regional elections. Today it was Roberto Vannacci, MEP and deputy secretary of the League, on the sidelines of the presentation of the lists for the regional elections in Tuscany, who reignited the clash. 'The climate after the murder of the US conservative activist Charlie Kirk is a shameful thing: and unfortunately, I have also written it on my social networks, I have to note that violence is always on the left,' said the former general. 'The minute's silence denied at the Euro Parliament in Brussels, with the entire left hemicycle of the chamber applauding for this denial, was a shameful indicator of the situation that has arisen,' added Vannacci, according to whom 'this is the situation, the climate of violence is always on one side: we go ahead, sure that ours is the right attitude. Never once have we kept silent in the face of violence, whatever colour it may have been'.

League leader Matteo Salvini agreed with Vannacci: 'Just scroll through social media these days or turn on the TV, alas, with people saying that Charlie Kirk had it coming. I would not wish my worst enemy to die or any harm'.

But the day was also marked by the intervention of Forza Italia leader Antonio Tajani. Responding to a question on the parallel made by Minister Luca Ciriani, responsible for Relations with Parliament, between the current climate and that of the Red Brigades, Forza Italia's vice-premier relaunched: 'It started by criminalising people, we remember the story of Commissioner Calabresi' and 'it was all an orchestrated campaign against this police officer' who was later 'murdered'. Hence the warning: 'We must be careful in stirring up public opinion because it is not necessarily a political militant who commits criminal acts'.

In the centre-right, after all, since the Kirk murder, it's all about raising shields. Starting with the premier. A large passage of the speech at the Udc party was devoted to the reactions in the political world to the murder of the Republican political activist in the USA. "Hatred and political violence are dramatically becoming a reality again, bringing many knots to the boil," denounced Meloni, who recalled that she comes "from a political community that has often been accused of spreading hatred, look at that from the same people who celebrate and justify the intentional murder of a young man who was guilty of courageously defending his ideas". Hence the lunge: 'I believe the time has come to ask the Italian left to account for this continuous minimisation or even this continuous justification of criminalisation, of violence against those who do not think like them. Because the climate even here in Italy is becoming unsustainable and it is time to denounce it, and it is time to say clearly that these theses are unpresentable, dangerous, irresponsible and antithetical to any embryo of democracy'.