"Shooting in schools": controversy over Undersecretary Fazzolari's idea. He denies: "Never said"

A background ignites the political controversy. The undersecretary to the Prime Minister Giovanbattista Fazzolari, according to what was written by the newspaper "La Stampa", would like to teach shooting in schools.

The news was denied by the person concerned, who branded it an "invention" and threatened to sue, but the editor of the newspaper Massimo Giannini defends the reconstruction of his journalist, "unassailable and one hundred percent reliable source".

The facts, the newspaper published the reconstruction of a chat between Fazzolari and General Franco Federici, military adviser to Giorgia Meloni. At Palazzo Chigi, after the declarations of the prime minister and the prime minister of Ethiopia, the undersecretary approached him, talking to him, among other things, about the good results obtained by the Azzurri in target shooting, a sports federation which is supervised by the Ministry of Defense and which over the years has brought a dozen Olympic medals. The undersecretary would have highlighted the need to make a table for a shooting teaching project in schools. And Federici would have undertaken to organize a meeting with the interested parties.

Open up heaven. On the one hand they point the finger at a "trigger-happy right", on the other the reconstruction of the newspaper is dismissed as "fake news". "They want to teach our young people to become skilled gunslingers," attacks the opposition. «With all due respect to the sporting discipline of target shooting – also asks the group leader of the dem in the Senate Simona Malpezzi -, is the priority of the right for education really teaching children to use guns? Valditara clarify».

Salvini himself, before Fazzolari's denial, defined bringing activities such as target shooting to school as an "unenlightened" idea. A senseless controversy for Giorgia Meloni: "Fazzolari has never said it, no one has ever even remotely thought of a thing like that".

The undersecretary described the newspaper article as "ridiculous and unfounded". Fazzolari admits that he practices dynamic sports shooting, but denies the idea of teaching it at school. "The kids at school have to do athletics, swim, and maybe when they're older they dedicate themselves to shooting".

(Unioneonline/L)