Ignazio La Russa explains what happened in Marcinelle. “I preferred to ignore that display of intolerance so as not to disturb the sacredness of the commemoration and that place. And then I did not intend to mix the task I had received of reading the words of the President of the Republic with the low and instrumental political controversy they were carrying out,” explains in an interview with Corriere della Sera, the President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, speaking about the protests during his visit to Marcinelle.
“Today – he adds – however, I am not in Marcinelle and I feel I can speak more freely: the act of turning their backs while I was reading the message from the head of state was the utmost disrespect for the place and the moment by the Cgil. To Landini I would like to give an unsolicited piece of advice. Before making categorical statements, like saying that those who denounced the vulgar protest were victims of sunstroke, he should look carefully at who is within earshot of certain comments and certain giggles. I mean that several parliamentarians, in addition to a person close to FdI and who has a position in the Senate, were sitting near Landini and – La Russa continues – heard certain words from him and those close to him: vulgar comments while I was speaking, and also sexist ones while the Vice President of the European Parliament Antonella Sberna, a member of FdI, was speaking, to whom they also blatantly showed their backsides. These words were reported to me and I certainly do not disclose them. I hope they were not recorded. It would be really embarrassing for those who said them.” “There are those who use the argument of antifascism in a instrumental way, for the purposes of political battle. Perhaps due to a lack of more solid arguments,” concludes the President of the Senate.
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