The insults to Meloni from the stage on May 1st in Foggia did not go unnoticed. For this reason, a complaint (formalized this morning to the Carabinieri) for contempt of the institutions was presented today by Daria Cascarano, provincial manager of the legality and safety department of FdI in the province of Foggia. The decision follows the offenses deemed “sexist” uttered by the rapper Gennarone yesterday evening, during the concert on May 1st which was being held in Foggia.
“I filed a complaint as a private citizen who felt offended by the words spoken last night, and as head of the legality department I feel the need to act even more – Cascarano explained to ANSA -. If the host of the evening or a representative of the city government had dissociated themselves at the time from the words spoken from the stage, it is likely that I would not have filed any complaint. It is necessary to understand that rappers, singers, artists in general are teachers for our children and must set an example. A double offense took place last night. To the prime minister as such and as a woman and therefore towards all women. Young people have unfortunately lost respect for women, teachers and institutions. So it is up to us adults and anyone with a role of responsibility to pay particular attention to the messages and words they convey. If no one immediately dissociated themselves, I believe that those words were shared. We must all be very attentive to the influence that we adults have on young people,” she concluded.
Augusta Montaruli, deputy group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber, also spoke on the issue. “The sexist insults uttered by a pseudo rapper during the concert on May 1st in Foggia against President Meloni are to be firmly condemned. Violent, sexist and discriminatory stereotypes are unacceptable if pronounced in any context, but they are even more despicable if they are shouted from the stage of a public event, hiding in retrospect behind elusive yet insistent artistic motivations. Anyone who expresses themselves in an offensive manner must be condemned without hesitation and the absence of a clear and timely position from the institutional representatives present at the event is disappointing. We are waiting to know what the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, thinks of these insults which offend all women, regardless of political affiliation,” she concluded.
