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the City hall he has revoked the honorary citizenship from Verona to Roberto Saviano, which he had granted (with the right, left and center vote) in December 2008. The revocation was decided with a deliberates of the Alberto Zelger, player of the Northern League, which had already advanced the proposal A year ago. Between reasons indicated by the resolution is the fact that Saviano allowed himself praise the captain’s behavior Carola Racket (at the helm of Sea-Watch 3 in the rescue of migrants in Libyan waters, ed). That he was not later convicted – Zelger specified Wednesday night – but we know that justice often does not come.
The arrows against Matteo Salvini
the document adds that Saviano has done it several times launched against former minister Matteo Salvini, with defamatory phrases very disrespectful to the institutions and has repeatedly expressed his contempt for Salvini. Zelger added, during the (remote) town hall that the Neapolitan writer made deployed in favor of mayor by Riace that he had forged documents to encourage illegal immigration (but the former mayor of Riace Mimmo Lucano been acquitted, ed).
The opposition: a retaliation from the Northern League
From the ranks of‘opposition, Michele Bertucco de la Izquierda in the Municipality of Verona in the Municipality defined the resolution as a retaliation towards a writer who has Different positions from this most, and that he lives in custody because he is threatened by the Camorra. Antonyms M5S, Metas and Pd. Sparks between the president of the city council Ciro Maschio and the councilor Marta Vanzetto (M5S) who had spoken of the legal facts of the former president of the public company Amia Andrea Miglioranzi, investigated for corruption. In favor of the revocation Daniela Drudi, from Verona Domani (Saviano put his head in like Toscani, Vauro and Calenda) and FdI. Flavio Tosi does not participate in the vote: the council should take care of something else, a low level of debate. In the end, 20 s, 7 nobody and one abstained.
Writer’s response
Dear Veronese friends, from today I am no longer your fellow citizen. This is how Roberto Saviano begins on his Facebook profile, who comments on the news of the revocation of his honorary citizenship of Verona. This measure does not concern me only – he continues – but it wants to silence any impulse contrary to the sole thought of the majority directors and their party. An ideology that wants to blunt critical thinking and prohibit any reasoning and proposal on controversial issues. “Not our fellow citizen who doesn’t think like us,” that’s what he means. But Verona is much better than the Guitti who now represent it in the City Council: there is a city that I know is open and plural, contrary to how certain administrations try to represent it. It is dramatic that this resolution arrives while the rest of the Council’s activities – perhaps a priority – seem to be blocked for days, and while Verona is the eighth Italian municipality by number of infections. Even if I am officially no longer your fellow citizen – continue – we will continue to exchange opinions even when we do not agree, to propose solutions even when they are uncomfortable and to monitor the work of our administrators even when we are against the current: because this is what citizens do.
December 24, 2020 (change December 24, 2020 | 12:21)
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