Beppe Grillo and the "citizenship brigades", the step backwards arrives: "It was a boutade"
The Guarantor M5s, after the controversy, throws it on irony. Conte defends him: "He wanted an active citizenship that today is even opposed""Please stop, it was a boutade."
Step back by Beppe Grillo after the controversy sparked by his intervention on the stage of the M5s event , on Saturday, in which he incited the pentastellata crowd to form "citizenship brigades" by disguising themselves with balaclavas and going "secretly to do chores, fix the sidewalks the flowerbeds, the manhole covers, without attracting attention».
A concept supported and reaffirmed yesterday too, with the former M5s comedian who posted a photo of a man with a balaclava and a sign with the wording "citizenship brigade": " We are waiting - he wrote on social media - for the manhole brigades and of the sidewalks ".
“But is it possible that you take everything seriously? – he says today in an Instagram video – Even the newspapers have exaggerated a bit. But stop! I have received some dramatic news, really. And with the usual irony he goes wild: «A 74-year-old pensioner was spotted, a plumber who was fixing six manhole covers at night with a balaclava, stop! Another, a 64-year-old Albanian who put a trowel in place eight sidewalks during the night with a balaclava».
And again: «We cannot go on like this, stop, the government must react and make a law: abolish the abuse of office and put the abuse of socially useful jobs - continues Grillo - Stop it, be consistent with yourselves, with government and politics. Go out and applaud the city, don't fix it. You have to say look at that beautiful devastated manhole, look at that marvelous broken sidewalk, look at the moldy plants. You have to do this, stop it because otherwise a mess will really break out ».
Since Saturday, the center-right has continued to attack Grillo's provocation while the Cinquestelle Movement defends the guarantor, saying it is convinced that the attacks are only instrumental.
The key chosen by the Genoese comedian was "ironic", an invitation according to Giuseppe Conte to "an active citizenship that today is even opposed". In the square, claims the M5s group leader in the Chamber Francesco Silvestri, "there were twenty thousand people who gave a voice to those on starvation wages" but the right managed to attack "only Grillo on a joke of civic activism".
Other than instrumental controversies, for the minister and exponent of the Brothers of Italy Guido Crosetto the one who takes advantage of the opportunity is Grillo: «He had disappeared, off the radar. He has little to say and nothing matters to him. But he has to earn his party 'life annuity',' he comments. The League looks to the secretary of the Democratic Party : "What does Schlein say?" Is the provocation of the group leaders in Parliament Riccardo Molinari and Massimiliano Romeo. It is not up to her, replies the MEP Dem Brando Benifei trying to close the question and answer, "to answer for Grillo's words".
(Unioneonline/D)
