Controversy over the clashes in Bologna, Salvini: “Close the social centers occupied by the communists”. Meloni attacks: “A certain left supports the troublemakers”

Election campaign in the final rush in Emilia Romagna (voting in exactly one week) and political controversy is mounting due to yesterday’s far-right demonstration in Bologna, reached by the procession of anti-fascist collectives. The police try to prevent contact between the demonstrators. And three officers were injured in scuffles with the collectives. The right goes on the attack starting from the prime minister Giorgia Meloni which sympathizes with the police “who with firmness and professionalism faced the usual violent men, including throwing firecrackers and stones, risking their safety”. And he accuses: “It is sad to note that certain leftists continue to tolerate and, sometimes, to support these troublemakers instead of openly condemning these episodes and showing solidarity with those who, every day, work to guarantee everyone’s safety”, writes the Prime Minister on Facebook.

He was also there yesterday in Bologna Elly Schlein arrived to defend the anti-fascist squares of the city from the black procession of Casapound and the Patriots. “The black march is an insult that Bologna does not deserve. We have already stopped the fascists, we will stop them again. The neo-fascist associations must be dissolved”, says the Dem secretary in front of the people of the left who gather in Piazza Maggiore, from the Anpi to the CGIL, from the PD to the M5S.

The controversy and also the electoral campaign for the regional elections on 17 and 18 November are inflamed (there is also voting in Umbria). Matteo Salvini talks about “red thugs chasing cops”. And he asks the minister Plant yourself the “closure of the social centers occupied by the communists” and “a survey of all the left-wing social centers occupied illegally because they are dens of criminals”. The centre-right candidate for the presidency of the Region, Elena Ugolini he takes it out on the deputy mayor of Bologna Emily Clancy who had followed, albeit at a distance, the collective procession.

For the Democratic Party, “it is up to those who have government responsibilities to guarantee the safety of citizens and protect public order. This is an elementary principle established by constitutional law which is instead ignored by the majority who prefer, for a change, to throw the ball into the court of opposition and attack it,” he comments Marta Bonafonicoordinator of the party’s national secretariat. He adds Nicola Fratoianni by Avs: “Neo-fascists must not have the right to citizenship, they must not have squares, even more so in this city a stone’s throw from that station which was the scene of the horrendous fascist massacre of 1980”. According to the vice-president of the M5S group in the Senate Alessandra Maiorinoalso at the anti-fascist demonstration organized by the Anpi in Bologna, “the only recipe to react to this state of affairs and this government is the one that the partisans used: united and united to send them back to where they came from”.