Threats and insults to restaurateurs: no lunch for Salvini – Chronicle

Florence, September 8, 2020 – Threats and insults received by phone and via the web: This is how a restaurant in Pontassieve (Florence) explains that it has to stop hosting an electoral lunch tomorrow with Matteo Salvini after the leader of the League meets with the people in the market in Piazza Washington at 12.30 pm. The resignation of this restaurant, the Sunset in via Di Vittorio, follows after a few days that of another restaurant in the province of Florence, the Centanni restaurant in Bagno a Ripoli whose owners on August 28, for similar reasons, preferred to cancel a lunch with 100 people with Salvini and Susanna Ceccardi. “Here with us a lunch was planned for tomorrow with about 40 people with Matteo Salvini, but now it is not done, too many people threaten us by phone, ignorant people and we prefer to stop,” they explain from the Pontassieve restaurant. We are very sorry for what is happening around us in these hours. Negative comments about Salvini’s presence in the exercise also appear in the review space left on the Internet at this time.. But “what would have been tomorrow for us was only a lunch and not a flag of our political orientation – add the directors – The lunch was canceled due to the many threats received even by phone. We would have accepted any political party simply thinking about doing our job and we would never have expected such evil. Our job is to cook and we expect to be judged for this and nothing else. Our restaurant has always been open to everyone, we have never rejected or offended someone because of political, sexual, cultural differences. “The appointment was canceled, as also happened in Bagno a Ripoli, due to threats and insults – observed by Matteo Salvini’s staff. Even in a period of crisis, restaurateurs cannot work if the clients are Lega Nord ”.