The defender of the Italian national team Leonardo Bonucci is back on the controversy of open bus in an interview with Il Foglio. On Wednesday the prefect of Rome Matteo Piantedosi had pointed the finger at the central of the Juventus and the captain of the Azzurri Giorgio Chiellini for the parade on the bus through the streets of Rome, which had not previously been authorized.
Bonucci responded by attacking: “Blaming the players is simplistic and very Italian. The authorities agreed to use the open bus saying that they would have been able to handle the situation ”.
“The whole delegation asked for the uncovered bus and since the covered one, regardless it had been blocked by the crowd already in the street and would still have been limited in the passage to follow, the authorities agreed“, Continued the European champion player.
“We would never, ever allow ourselves to take the place of the competent authorities, I guess have made their due assessments, earlier than what happened in Piazza del Popolo the night before, and then with our passage into the city ”.
On Wednesday, the FIGC defended itself with an official note: “The return to Rome was only expected after receiving welcome invitations from the Head of State and the President of the Council of Ministers; upon arrival in front of Palazzo Chigi, considering that the situation was no longer manageable as the covered bus had not dissuaded the fans from encircling the Italian delegation in every way, we still reiterated the request, at this point shared by the institutions, for a short journey with the open bus, also with a view to protecting the safety of the players and for do not disappoint the thousands of people who had already poured into the center of the capital in the hours preceding this meeting “.
OMNISPORT | 15-07-2021 11:19
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