"It was an honour for me to shake hands with a man I have looked up to since the beginning of my activism, a courageous leader , a strong man of Europe, the Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini." The image posted on X by Tommy Robinson, 42-year-old leader of the extra-parliamentary far-right anti-migrant and anti-Islam movement in the United Kingdom , while he smiles and shakes hands with the leader of the League at the Ministry of Transport, became a case in point.
Robinson, considered close to Elon Musk and whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has, among other things, a series of criminal records and periods spent in prison.
Matteo Salvini's meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Tommy Robinson—a racist, supremacist leader of the British far-right, with a long history of violence and criminal convictions—Dem Matteo Orfini lashes out—represents a further step in the League's decline. Robinson is not a political interlocutor: he is a neo-fascist agitator, a supporter of Putin, a key figure in the anti-migrant riots, and a key figure in European extremist networks. Welcoming him with great fanfare at the ministry only reinforces his claims.
Orfini, among other things, notes that a video of the meeting features a man with his face obscured: "Salvini should clarify who was accompanying him." "But what does Foreign Minister Tajani think," asks Nicola Fratoianni of AVS, "about this? We want to know from him whether the Italian government tolerates such obscenities."
"Our Constitution is proudly anti-fascist: I remind the Minister of Transport of this," attacks Democrat Chiara Gribaudo, "who perhaps forgot this when she invited an English neo-Nazi to an institutional venue, a man who goes against all the democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution and goes well beyond unconstitutional racism."
All this - the opposition points out - on the eve of a week in which, thanks to the League, Casapound will be able to hold a press conference in the Chamber.
(Unioneonline)
