“Other than ‘la mano de dios’, this is the hand of the Camorra“. Once again it is a tweet, short message but not as harmless, to spark the controversy. It was the one who wrote the accused message last night Alessandro Albanese, deputy mayor of Cerano, municipality of Novara. The sentence was then removed with a lot of excuses but this was not enough to quell thehurricane of controversy that unleashed.
With that tweet, the deputy mayor of Novara last night commented on goal canceled against AC Milan Kessie in the final minutes of Milan-Naples at San Siro, which would have earned the Rossoneri a draw. He then added: “Dia should open an investigation“. Phrases that have sparked thousands of reactions from all over Italy. This morning the tweet, which the deputy mayor allegedly tried to modify with different versions, was removed: “I apologize if anyone felt offended for a certain term used after” hot “after Milan-Napoli”, wrote Albanese trying to reverse. And again, trying to adjust the shot: “It is probably an exaggeration to talk about the Camorra but what happened some doubt makes him come, at least from a sporting point of view “, he still wrote today.
Too late, however, also to remove the tweet: the photo has made the rounds of the web, and has been relaunched by various websites and newspapers of the Azzurri. There are hundreds of messages of criticism and also the insults directed at the deputy mayor that are covering the web. And it was also moving the same Neapolitan municipality, with the president of the Municipal Mobility Commission Nino Simeone. “Unfortunately – underlines Simeone – it happens more and more often that some personalities, public and otherwise, bring up the Camorra to identify Naples and the Neapolitans; it happens in sport as in other sectors, and it really is unbearable to have to suffer these gratuitous offenses, whenever they want to hit the good name of our city in some way. Externations of this type are seriously racist offensives towards Naples. I therefore asked with a note – continues Simeone – both al mayor Manfredi who to the president of the SSC Napoli De Laurentis, to activate all the most suitable actions towards this gentleman and all others in the future who should behave similarly. Only in this way will it be possible to try to limit the repetition of these serious episodes “.
“It was just an outburst from a heated Milan fan who, I repeat, led me to use the wrong terms – defends the Albanian deputy mayor – in no way was there any discriminatory intent or other. On the contrary: I myself am of southern origins, sfogliatelle-bagna cauda 10 to 0. “As soon as the game was over – explains Albanese – I paraphrased, thinking I was ironic, the title of the film, which is beautiful, by Sorrentino ‘It was the hand of God’, writing ‘It was the hand of the Camorra’. A hot comment that I could have avoided, knowing the echo of social media and also considering my institutional role “.
Exponent of Come on Italy, Albanese is deputy mayor in a center-right junta. “As I explained to those who contacted me from Naples, I certainly cannot be accused of racism or anti-southernism, as my surname testifies, in fact my great-grandparents were from Puglia, from Trani. I removed the post, with a cool head, I realized I got carried away. With social media, as a fan, you have to think a hundred times before writing. Unfortunately, football cheering sometimes affects us negatively. I repeat, I’m sorry if anyone wants to exploit politically what was just typhus. I love Naples and I repeat, I’m sorry for what happened. I never thought of equating the Neapolitans with the Camorra. It was only one hot unhappy phrase“.
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