Was also attended by the bishop of Verona, Giuseppe Zenti , to condemn what happened yesterday at the stadio Bentegodi, with the choirs and the screams against Mario Balotelli. “Verona is not the one you see at the stadium,” he said. And the policy?
On such a case, while the head of the ultra veronesi, Luca Castellini – the exponent of a New Force, declares: “Balotelli will never be Italian”, the reactions come almost only from the centre-left and by the Cinquestelle. With a silence that lasted many hours to the right. In reality, broken from the League. But only to minimize. The leader Matteo Salvini , in fact, seems to almost seek confrontation with the player (the two had already “busted” in the past). “With 20 thousand jobs at risk – says Salvini – Balotelli is the last of my concern, but the last last last. Is worth more than a worker of Ilva, that 10 Balotelli. Racism must be condemned but we do not need phenomena,” he says in answer to a question about the case during a press conference in the Senate.
The former minister league Lorenzo Fontana , yesterday, had spoken of “a shameful pillory in the media against Verona and its fans”. Position shared by the first citizen of Verona, Federico Sboarina and also confirmed today: “there can be a prerequisite that does not exist, because in the stadium there were racist chants, being put in the pillory a fanbase and a city.”
While the leader of Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni , by answering a question on the words of the head of the ultra Castellini, says: “If racist insults were there, I think that you should always take action because you absolutely must fight the racism in the stadiums”. Then states, however: “I didn’t follow the thing, I was not at the stadium. I heard that someone might say that there were these choirs, but this are not able to say because the stadium was not there”.
