By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 12:35, Updated yesterday at 12:53
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The elected official published a video on the social network X in which she explains having been recognized by a compatriot who hit her. However, she does not intend to file a complaint.
Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini, claims to have been attacked Monday evening in Strasbourg by a compatriot who recognized her but told AFP that she did not intend to file a complaint. “I was attacked by someone who spoke Italian, I am here in Strasbourg” (northeast of France), says Alessandra Mussolini, 61, in a video published on her X account (formerly Twitter).
The elected representative of Forza Italia, a right-wing party which belongs to Giorgia Meloni’s government coalition, says she received a volley “delirious insults” and being hit “with a sort of crutch, on the back and shoulders”. “I am in shock”she adds.
“I want to turn the page”
In an audio message to AFP, she explains that she did not want to file a complaint. “I want to turn the page” while denouncing “any form of violence, which leads nowhere”. “This story should be forgotten, but from evil always comes good, because I have been expressed incredible solidarity, including here in the European Parliament”including its president Roberta Metsola who belongs to the same group in Strasbourg, the European People’s Party (EPP), added Mussolini.
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, whose seat as MEP Alessandra Mussolini has held since entering the government in 2022, denounced “a vile attack”. “When violence targets women, it is even more despicable”he said on X. Alessandra Mussolini is the granddaughter of «Duce» Benito Mussolini who led the Italian fascist regime from 1922 until his execution by partisans in 1945. Niece of Sophia Loren, she was an actress, model and singer.