Sara Guglielmetti Following last weekend's events in Milan, with smashed shop windows, raided stores, and shameful graffiti, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and the League's candidate for mayor of the Lombardy capital, Silvia Sardone, took immediate action. Here's what the two politicians did.
Milan, anti-Maranza raid: Salvini and Sardone's street gesture
What happened last weekend in Milan is still there for all to see. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and the League candidate for mayor of Milan, Silvia Sardone, decided to intervene in person, with a sort of anti-Maranza raid. The two League members were photographed erasing anti-police graffiti on the walls of the city.
Sardone's words in a statement : "The left-wingers are defacing, the League is cleaning up. We've decided to come and remove some vile graffiti against the police outside a Milanese school. In a difficult time for Milan, we believe even a small gesture of civility is important to prevent the spread of a message of hatred towards men and women in uniform.
A sign of respect that goes hand in hand with the new regulations imposed by the government, the more severe penalties for those who destroy it, and the soldiers arriving in the city."
Clashes in Milan, Sardone: "I would have done the opposite of Sala."
As seen, Matteo Salvini and Silvia Saldone have removed graffiti against law enforcement left in Milan last weekend . Regarding the clashes, the League mayoral candidate had said: "What would I have done? Completely the opposite" to Mayor Giuseppe Sala: "We didn't see him go to the police who were attacked, we didn't see him go to the shopkeepers, we didn't see him speak to the citizens, we didn't even see him in the city council." Salvini, on the sidelines of the meeting at the prefecture, said: " Milan is an open, beautiful, and welcoming city, but there will no longer be any kind of tolerance for those who destroy, for those who loot. Here we're talking about someone who says 'we're uncomfortable' and then has €1700 cell phones. Here, they've looted clothing, shoe, and phone stores, so discomfort has nothing to do with it; it's about an age when you should be in school or at the youth center ."