‘Verbally attacked’ by a colleague, she resigns as councilor of Terni

TERNI, JUNE 10 – Just after the European and administrative vote, in Terni the municipal councilor for the environment Mascia Aniello announced that she had resigned from Stefano Bandecchi’s council, claiming that a colleague had “verbally attacked” her on two occasions. “After the second brutal verbal aggression that, punctually in the absence of the mayor, I suffered from a fellow councilor just for having firmly claimed the right to health for workers and citizens of Terni – Aniello writes in a note -, I believe there are no more the conditions to move forward in the council, in Terni”. “I wanted to avoid exploitation thus far – explains the resigning councilor – by postponing until today the necessary decision to resign irrevocably from the municipal executive, without ever having received an apology from the person concerned. I consider it very serious that a man, even more so a personality public, perpetrates similar forms of violence to impose himself on a woman. These episodes are certainly part of the daily phenomena of ordinary macho madness that is still recorded in every environment, professional and otherwise. civic commitment undertaken so far; it is rather a double step forward, both as a humble testimony for the emancipation of women, a challenge never truly won; and for the liberation of the city of Terni from an oppressive yoke, that of the enormous steel pollution, never sanctioned by the authorities”.