“I’m going back to Poland, and I hope to be in good company.” The secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini, spoke in the aftermath of the incident in Przemysl, about ten kilometers from the Polish border with Ukraine. “I’ll do it without cameras, as it was this time,” he said on the sidelines of the lectio magistralis of Cardinal Petro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State in Rome. Yesterday, 8 March, Salvini was accepted by the mayor of the city, Wojciech Bakun, with a shirt with the face of Vladimir Putin and the inscription “Russian Army”. The same shirt that the Northern League secretary had worn in 2015 during a visit to Moscow. Bakun told him yesterday: “I’m not receiving it, come with me to the border to condemn” the Russian president.
The criticisms for the jacket
The leader of the League then referred to the criticisms received on the jacket he wore during the visit to Bakun, full of commercial brands and with a large inscription “Areu”, the emergency center of the Lombardy Region. “Those sponsors are the ones who give money to the non-profit organization to treat cancer patients,” Salvini replied to those who had advanced the hypothesis of a sponsored mission. “Being able to criticize a voluntary association that next week sends a clothes truck to Moldova on the border with Ukraine means having time to waste,” he continued.
Cover image: EPA / DAREK DELMANOWICZ POLAND OUT
Video credit: Alexander Jakhnagiev/Vista
