In the photo there is a young Ignazio La Russa upside down, next to a photo of Benito Mussolini, in front of which there is a bouquet of flowers. The shot, dating back to 1992, was reshared upside down on social media by the Taranto actor and director Michele Riondino on the occasion of Liberation Day. A message that he is causing discussion and which he accompanied by a comment.
Riondino: “There are no longer the fascists of the past”
“There are no longer the fascists of the past. Only sheep. This is what yesterday’s fascists are who have become today’s rulers. Better a life as a sheep than one day as a lion. Long live the resistance”, he wrote in comment of the photo Riondino, who is also the artistic director of the 1st May concert Libero e Pensante in Taranto. “The really funny thing is that there was a time when the fascists were more authentic, more bold, they were lions, even if only for one day. They claimed their identity without fear of being accused of being traitors and murderers of their homeland.” “Today however, they are afraid to define themselves, to claim their faith. They betray their identity by swearing on the anti-fascist constitution and then by sitting on the armchair they become champions of the supercazzola, a black belt in climbing on mirrors. I say this sincerely”, concluded Riondino, who this evening will be present at the screening of the film Palazzina Laf, his first work as director, at the archaeological park of the Greek walls of Taranto. Under the Facebook post many comments between applause and insults. There are those who write “very good” and those who, not agreeing with what he wrote, call him a “failed director”.
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The reactions of several centre-right exponents were immediate.
“Michele Riondino’s statement about the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa is shameful”, declared the president of Fratelli d’Italia in the Senate, Lucio Malan, and then added: “These characters in search of easy, cheap publicity are cloying They are the same people who are ready to cry foul in the face of any criticism, even polite, of institutional figures, if coming from the left , that Constitution that those characters only know how to quote, without understanding it, without respecting it”. Tommaso Foti, group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber, also defined the post as “shameful”. “Insulting phrases and images, all the more unacceptable as they are directed against the second-largest position in the State, imbued with a violence that is fuel for fueling a vulgar and dangerous hatred. Apparently, the protagonist of said disgusting performance on social media would have been chosen as artistic director of the May 1st festival in Taranto. It is true that there are people like Riondino who are willing to do anything to advertise their film, but it seems natural and due to revoke the aforementioned role from a character whose demerits are only known. To the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, whose appreciated and shared political history we know well, and the courage to have always faced it head on – certainly not head down – the full solidarity of the Fdi group in the Chamber “, concluded Foti. The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Lorenzo Fontana, also intervened in this regard. “I address to the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, the expressions of my deepest solidarity for the photo published on Facebook which portrays him head-on below. I strongly condemn this initiative which is harmful to the institutions”, he declared.
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