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After the controversy unleashed by the video on the Internet, Leonardo Iaccarino resigned | CorriereTv
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Another video has emerged that has gone viral on social media and shows the president of the Foggia City Council, Leonardo Iaccarino of Forza Italia, shooting from the balcony of his house, after the two shocking videos that have been debated in Puglia for days starring his 16-year-old son. of the politician from Foggia and a child from Taranto, who also shoot from their home to celebrate New Year’s Eve, with firearms. In life, Iaccarino is a firefighter. While firing blank shots, he says, “This is not a joke.”
The video was filmed on the night of December 31, with a mobile phone: after the first 4 shots, the politician continues to simulate the shots. The gun jams and a boy’s voice is heard in the video urging him to shoot again: “Shoot, shoot again. There is another blow. Then a fifth shot begins. “Someone is having fun putting these videos – Leonardo Iaccarino commented at the beginning -. If anyone wants to argue that he was holding a toy gun, go ahead. It seems absurd to me that being with a toy gun on the balcony of the house could be a determining factor in asking for my resignation. I do not quit. My son bought it because it is a toy gun with a red cap. And I made sure it was a blank gun, ”he reiterated.
On Sunday, however, Iaccarino with a letter sent to the mayor of Foggia, Franco Landella, announced his resignation: “As I know – he writes – a vestige of my private life has become, despite me, in the public domain. This has damaged my public image (which has always been perfect) and the institution that I represent. It is superfluous – he adds – to point out that I am fully aware that in a city held hostage by the mafia, in which guns shoot to kill, any use must be avoided, due to the strong symbolic devaluation they represent. I must put the interest of the institution that I represent and of the entire city, which due to my responsibility is negatively at the center of the news, first, and therefore make a painful but inevitable gesture for me. I therefore resign – he concludes – my resignation from the presidency of the municipal assembly ».