Portrayed as a transsexual Madonna, it's storm on the influencer. Salvini: "Shameful insult"

A Madonna with long hair and a face framed by a thick beard, on a blue background and holding the child in her arms.

So Riccardo Simonetti, a famous German influencer of Italian origins, who has his own television broadcast on the NDR in Germany and is often a guest of other broadcasters, was portrayed on the cover of the weekly Siegessaeule.

In the interview to advertise his latest book, "Mamma, sono fr ** io" (Mama, ich bin Schwul), Simonetti states: "If Mary was a virgin, who had a child without sex, then we can well represent her as a person does not conform to gender categories ". Very serious words in the opinion of Matteo Salvini and various members of Fdi and FI considering that Simonetti presents himself as "goodwill ambassador of the European Parliament" to the LGBTQ Community.

A circumstance denied by the Eurochamber who in a note said that Simonetti is not his "ambassador" at all, but that with him, as with other influencers, there is a free collaboration contract on civil rights issues.

However, this clarification did not extinguish the controversy. "A shameful insult" said Salvini, while for Ylenia Lucaselli (Fdi) "it would be appropriate for the left to be indignant too". "We are really tired of this 'politically correct' of the left which, after trying to abolish Christmas, now deploys these unlikely and vulgar characters," said Maurizio Gasparri. "We do not think this folklore is the way to defend the rights of homosexuals", underlined the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.

(Unioneonline / D)