“F***ing shit, you’re sick and you suck”

He hadn’t “foresee” this one Luke Cicero. He, the journalist and metereologo tv, with a past in Sky Tg24 and now a militant of state television, mother Raiwas the victim of last Saturday homophobic insults in a place in Rome, Montesacro district.

Ciceroni himself revealed the incident, with a post on Facebook in which he poured out all his bitterness. He was simply drinking a spritz in Piazzale Adriatico with two friends, when he was homophobically addressed by one of the waiters, as he wrote in the post.

The story then continues: “It all started with an appreciation towards the waiter, a certain Vincenzo, who reacted by confronting me in a harsh manner with insults, such as fr***o shithalf man, you make me sick you and all those who are like you, are sick peoplestay away from me because you only bring illnesses!!!”.

Ciceroni, at that point, tries to re-enter the premises to demand some apologies by the owners, but his plans were nipped in the bud: “He followed me, slammed the door shut and started to push me, insult mealways the same way: he told me you’re scared, right? Because you f***ers are cowards, half men of shitsick, 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!”.

Was it enough to leave? No, because it didn’t end there: “We left the place but they followed us, me and my friend, both this guy Vincenzo, bulletto protagonist and waiter of this sad place, that two men of the staff who, as if that were not enough, pulled me and assumed that I was drunk. We recovered from the shock and then went home, but this thing marked me and made me understand that politicians are sowing hate, racismhomophobia and bad example to this country now adrift! We are going back half a century, not to say more, scenes of racism and homophobia like these date back to the saddest periods of the past. I wanted to make this public and I hope that in the future things will change, as soon as possible”.