“You shitty faggot, half a man, you and all those like you disgust me, you are sick, stay away from me because you only bring diseases.” Luke Ciceronithe meteorologist known on TV for his appearances on Rai programs and not only, has reported a homophobic attack suffered by a waiter during an evening with friends in the Montesacro neighborhood of Rome. The journalist himself reported it through social media.
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Homophobic attack
“I would like to report a terrible act of homophobia that ruined the tranquility of a pleasant dinner among friends,” begins the long post by Luca Ciceroni, who says he has lived in the neighborhood since 2005. On Saturday night he was in the company of two friends, when just before leaving the restaurant, he was, according to his story, “the victim of a terrible act of homophobia by one of the waiters, but not only that, because despite having looked for the owners and interacted with the lady who was at the cash register, the atmosphere quickly degenerated in front of the incredulity of those who were having dinner in that place where I will never set foot again.” “It all started with an appreciation for the waiter, who reacted by confronting me in a heavy manner with insults,” says the journalist.
«I simply replied that I felt sorry for him, his political orientation was clearly far right.
At that point I walked away. I avoided the confrontation with the bully, I walked around Piazzale Adriatico and entered the place from the opposite side to look for the owners, convinced that I would receive an apology”. “He followed me – Ciceroni continues -, he slammed the door and started pushing me, insulting me, always in the same way: he said to me, are you scared, right? Because you faggots are cowards, half-men of shit, sick and he pushed me in front of the owner who was at the cash register, who instead of intervening to make him see reason, supported him, without insults, yes, but making it clear that her thoughts were the same. In 2024, things like this must not happen”. With his friends, the journalist then left the place but, he adds, “two men from the staff followed us and, as if that were not enough, they pulled me and assumed that I was drunk, but they were very wrong … it was not a nice situation, I had never witnessed a scene like that. This thing has marked me. We are going back half a century, if not more, scenes of racism and homophobia like these date back to the saddest periods of our country’s past”.
Last updated: Tuesday 2 July 2024, 09:07
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