Brawl in the Chamber at the Regional Council meeting on Tuesday 7 May. The reason: the motion presented by the League for the first time Alessandra Cappellari, which asks the council to ban the prescription of triptorelin «in all cases not provided for in the product sheet”. In fact, the drug, currently at the center of controversy, is also prescribed off label to delay the pubertal development of children who do not accept their birth sex. In discussing the motion, first the M5s councilor Paola Pizzighini and then the councilor of the Civic Pact Luca Paladini. The founder of the Sentinelli of Milan branded the motion as «transphobic», provoking the reaction of the majority councilors, with the Northern League member Davide Caparini who started attacking Paladini, even shouting an insult from their desks: “You’re a piece of s….!”.
Paladini then asked for an interruption. The vice-president of the Council Emilio Del Bono (Pd)who was presiding over the session at that moment, gave the
word to Caparini convinced that the Northern League member would apologise. The counselor has
However, he continued to attack the opposition and this is why the session was
suspended for a few minutes. Caparini, however, was suspended from the Chamber for
the entire regional council of the day. The motion of Cappellari and the League was approved.
«I don’t feel any satisfaction in the face of this disciplinary measure a defeat for everyone, a bad page for this Council and for this chamber. Respect between us should never be lacking”, declared Paladini immediately afterwards. “We wasted an hour and a half in the chamber, with a motion which by passing had the ambition of ensuring that politics replaced medicine”, concluded the opposition councillor.
