Heated back and forth between high-ranking soldiers. In the most recent episode of White Zoneon Rete4, the lieutenant colonel Gianfranco Pagliaadvisor to the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, lashed out against positions expressed in recent months by the general Roberto Vannacci, now a candidate for the European elections with the League. The former commander of the Folgore paratroopers – complained Paglia – “by wearing the uniform he stained it, and we cannot afford this“. It’s still: “My duty is to explain to all of Italy that Vannacci’s thoughts are not the thoughts of the Defense. We are light years away from what he continues to say from August to today“.
Particularly scathing words, which the senior officer uttered precisely in the days in which the public debate reignited around Vannacci’s candidacy. “The League can do whatever it wants…“, observed Paglia, contesting not the political move of Matteo Salvini’s party, but the statements for which the general had made himself known to most in recent months.”His speeches were divisive. We personally don’t care what our soldiers do in the bedroom or what color their skin is. What matters is serving the country and doing it in the best possible way, honoring it The oath which have resor,” Paglia said.
The lieutenant colonel, who lost the use of his legs on a mission to Mogadishu and for this received the gold medal for military valor, then added that Vannacci “he was suspended simply because he wrote an unauthorized book with divisive arguments, respectable for his ideas but not for ours“. Paglia – we remember – was also parliamentary from 2008 to 2013 with the PDL. And precisely regarding that political experience he now specified: “When president Gianfranco Fini asked me to undertake the election campaign with them the first thing I did was call my chief of staff, and then I told my wife why I am a soldier, so how to behave“. The critical reference to the Vannacci case is understandable.
But the response from the general nominated by the League was not long in coming. “I haven’t watched TV, but I do a question: speaking in uniform Was he expressing his personal opinion or that of the institution to which he belongs? Because I, for having written a book in my personal capacity in my free time, was accused and suspended also for having aroused the association between the author and the ideas expressed by him to the institution to which he belongs! But I don’t worry…
it’s a flash in the pan!“, commented Vannacci in a post published on Facebook.
