BOLOGNA (ITALPRESS) – “Tomorrow I will send the invoice for damages to the minister Piantedosi”. Thus, interviewed by Rai News 24, the mayor of Bologna, Matteo Lepore, about the damage to the city for the clashes of last night during the event against the match of Eurolega Basket Virtus-Maccabi.
“The scenes of yesterday were obviously moved by a group of some thousands of violent people who chose Bologna as their target and place of confrontation. These violence must be condemned.” So the first citizen during a press conference at the Commune. “We have come from outside Bologna several thousand people who, encappucciate, then have engaged along the whole evening to collide with the police – he explains -. I thank the citizens of Bologna and all the associations of Bologna of the Movement for Peace because they did not take part in the events of yesterday. 80% of the people who took part in the fights came from outside the city yesterday.”.
“Scenes of guerrillas that could be avoided. There has been a management of the public order considered by the Ministry of Interior, which has subverted the orientation of the Committee for the public order of the city of Bologna. The prefect and the commissioner had to do what the minister Piantedosi chose,” he added. “I had asked to use the head and not the muscles and this unfortunately is the result,” adds the first citizen. “Piantedosi seems to me difficult enough because when a minister needs to show his muscles, especially the Interior Minister, it means he fails with his actions, his policies to achieve his results,” says Lepore. All Italian citizens are dissatisfied with the management of this government on security. Evidently this muscle use of the police serves to distract from the real problems there are. The minister rightly governs the country because a government has been elected and therefore assumes its responsibilities, but what I ask is not to use Bologna to perform the muscles because it is not worthy of this city and not even of this government.”.
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