Defamatory Posters Targeting Italian Politicians Spark Outrage in Caserta

Electoral posters with insults to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani appeared this morning in Caserta. On the posters of the Prime Minister, the inscription "Lying Nazi" appeared, and on those of Tajani "Nazi Collaborator". A gesture certainly isolated but that has sparked outrage among politicians. The local police command, directed by Commander Piricelli, has initiated an investigation to identify the authors of the posting of defamatory posters on Gallicola street. "I strongly condemn the serious offenses directed at Tajani and Meloni through some writings appeared on the electoral posters just posted in Caserta, the capital of the province that I have the honor to lead - commented the president of the Province, Giorgio Magliocca - This is not politics, this is not an electoral campaign. Different opinions are not expressed in this way, but in public confrontation and, above all, face to face. All this leads only to a barbarization of democracy which, paradoxically, such glaring acts would aim, in the thought of those who commit them, to defend". On the same wavelength the deputy of Fratelli d'Italia from Caserta Marco Cerreto: "It is a shameful campaign of hatred staged artfully and timely by those like the left who have no other argument than that of erecting the 'objective enemy', the only theme that manages to unite them. I hope that, in reference to what is happening, firm condemnations are taken clearly by those who today represent the left in the institutions starting from the mayor of Caserta Carlo Marino". "A shame that the advertising campaign of Fratelli d'Italia was immediately attacked by posters accusing Meloni of being 'liar and Nazi'. The 6x3 billboards with the effigy of the Prime Minister posted in all the Campanian provinces were immediately defaced with unfounded and unspeakable accusations and offenses. I hope that the law enforcement ascertain the responsibility of this vile initiative. We expect firm condemnation from the local institutions regardless of political colors. There is no room for this political barbarism that must be immediately stopped if we do not want to degenerate the climate of the electoral campaign in view of the vote for the Europeans next June 2024" commented Antonio Iannone, regional commissioner of Fratelli d'Italia in Campania. A comment also came from Gianpiero Zinzi, a deputy from Campania of the League. "The offensive writings that appeared this morning in Caserta on some electoral posters are intolerable and must be condemned just like any form of violence, physical and verbal. Ideas and contents are carried forward in a civil and democratic manner, never speaking with offensive, violent and inappropriate tones for a serene and correct political confrontation".