The day after the words of the Minister of Education, Giuseppe Valditara, on the patriarchy and illegal immigrants, which have sparked so much controversy, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from the G20 in Rio de Janeiro gives a assist to the representative of the League : «Illegal immigration - she confirms - affects violence against women, together with other causes».

The entire government is rallying around the minister: Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi announces a meeting at Palazzo Chigi on electronic bracelets - out of 10,458, 4,677 are for anti-stalking - and recalls the terrible numbers of murders: from January 1 to November 3 of this year, 263 people were killed in Italy: 96 victims were women, 82 killed in family or emotional contexts and 51 at the hands of their partner or ex-partner. "Our country must also promote an unequivocal and courageous message: violence against women continues to be an emergency to be fought with every possible solution", highlights the head of the Viminale. Alongside Valditara, who despite speaking from the stage of Confcommercio, did not return to the subject, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini also takes the field : "The Istat numbers correlate the migratory phenomenon with the increase in sexual crimes". For the secretary of the League, then, every rapist «would have his cure in chemical castration».

However, the words of the Minister of Education were once again heavily criticized by the opposition and by numerous associations that defend women. In the Chamber of Deputies, the Democrat Antonella Forattini defined it as «immoral that a minister, who is responsible for the education of young people, once again points to foreigners as the cause of a plague that is instead social». For the Vice President of the Chamber Anna Ascani (PD) «Valditara is the worst minister of this terrible government».

"Valditara has once again shown what he is made of, politically and humanly inadequate", says Nicola Fratoianni (Avs). Azione, with Fabrizio Benzoni and Alessio D'Amato also criticizes the minister's words "he dusts off racist stereotypes, it is despicable. Worse than Valditara's lies are those who repeat them, like our Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni", accuses the secretary of +Europa, Riccardo Magi.

The dem Serracchiani recalls that 80% of femicides are committed by Italians. Finally, criticisms of Valditara came from unions and students: the Unione sindacale di base went as far as to ask for the resignation of the Minister of Education and on December 13th will also take to the streets to bring this request. For the Uds students, the minister's words are "racist and denialist" in a word "unacceptable".

For his part, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, speaking at the National Assembly of Confesercenti, underlines the added value of integration : "The presence of companies led by immigrant citizens is growing. From commerce therefore also comes an impulse to integration, a powerful factor of security".

(Unioneonline/D)

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