“The first tweet that triggered the hate campaign in recent days started with Carlo Sibilia,” our parliamentary sources let us know. “It is the citizens who pay for those flights and are waiting for an answer,” the pentastellato Undersecretary of the Interior wrote on 27 May. Now there is no trace of that tweet. “It is clear that the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, personally intervened to have him removed because it is inappropriate for attacks against the second state office to start from the Interior Ministry”, add our sources. The consequences of that attack, which ilGiornale.it publishes exclusively, are still there for all to see. “Let’s kill Casellati” or “I want to kill Casellati” are just two examples of the most threatening messages of which the President of the Senate was the victim.
A highly regrettable fact, as also highlighted by Giuseppe Luigi Cucca, vice president of the group of Italy alive in the Senate, who comments: «Certain episodes should not be underestimated but deepened. It is also necessary to look at those who have blown the fire in recent months, in fact inciting certain reactions ». Senator Renziano underlines: “In the days when Luigi Di Maio recited a mea culpa about the hate and media pillory campaign carried out over the years by the M5s, the undersecretary of the Interior Sibilia published content with aggressive tones against the president Casellati ». Cucca judges it “shameful that a representative of the government lashes out in this way against the second position of the state.” «Isn’t it a pillory too?» Asks Cucca, who concludes: «Democracy also lives in form. If the M5s wants to change pace, you begin to do so by stigmatizing certain ways of doing political communication ».
The undersecretary grillino Sibilia, for his part, just yesterday, called for “condemning and prosecuting by all means available” the threats and intimidation Casellati was the victim. “In the meantime, I express solidarity with the person and with the second position of the State, in the meantime I want to ensure full commitment in prosecuting the perpetrators of these expressions of hatred,” added Sibilia. Finally, the undersecretary concluded by recalling that “the Ministry of the Interior is concentrating its energies precisely in this direction and for this I thank Minister Lamorgese. An effective contribution to the eradication of the malpractice of spreading hatred on the Net must be offered from a cultural point of view. We need to spread every good practice that helps us to eradicate the scourge of hate speech “.
The M5s vice president of the Senate Paola Taverna, on the other hand, tweeted: «The death threats to the president of the Senate #Casellati are unacceptable. Political debate must not and can never lead to violence. All my solidarity goes to her ». A tweet that did not go unnoticed by the comedian and TV presenter Luca Bizzarri who responded to the Taverna with a small survey: «Merde, mafiosi, you must die. He said it: Gandhi or Martin Luther King ». Obviously, those without a short memory can easily grasp the irony of the comment.
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