Controversy over Gallera and the photos while running: “He violated the rules when he left Milan.” Crisanti: “In the UK I should have resigned”

The photos that the Councilor for Social Welfare of Lombardy, Giulio Gallera, published on his social profiles on Sunday afternoon in which he appears with 4 other friends while jogging along the Martesana Channel, a channel that starts from Milan and crosses several municipalities of the interior until the Adda. “Today 20 km along the Martesana channel – the marathon is a teacher of life – grit your teeth and don’t give up, ”Gallera wrote on Facebook. But the controversy broke out immediately: there are those who accuse him of having gone out for a group run (friends appear in two photos taken in different parts of the channel) despite the fact that the anti-Covid rules expressly prohibit it, and those who assure that he too violated the restrictions on movement between municipalities. Lombardy is in fact in orange zone and Gallera could not leave Milan except in case of health, work or necessity (for example, for activities related to his institutional and political role). “For such a thing in England Should have download. But we are in Italy and this It’s not going to happen“Thunder the virologist of the University of Padua Andrea Crisanti. “But nevertheless, not a good example definitely “.

The writer and actor Giulio Cavalli was the first to denounce the case: “In the orange zone is group sports are prohibited and leave your municipality to play sports. Councilor Gallera managed to violate two rules and put everything on his own Instagram profile“In fact, among the photos uploaded online, there is also a smartphone screenshot di Gallera in which the trip that he himself would have traveled: from the map it appears that the Milan border has been crossed at Cascina Gobba in the direction Vimodrone-Cernusco sul Naviglio. The story did not go unnoticed even in Pirellone: ​​”Gallera violated two rules of the orange zone in one fell swoop, immortalizing everything on his Instagram profile,” is the reaction of the regional councilor for the Democratic Party. Pietro Bussolati. “Today someone mourns a death in the family thanks to the terrible health emergency management, but manages to smile with a handful of friends for the heroic sporting feat ”, adds the leader of the M5s group in the Region. Massimo De Rosa. “Gallera is totally unaware of what happens in Lombardy when he decides Give up it will always be too late ”.