The Omeonga case reaches Parliament. It is the Avs group leader in the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Chamber who announces a question to the Minister of the Interior to clarify the matter.
“Forcibly dragged off the plane, pushed to the ground, handcuffed and beaten by Italian agents: we ask Minister Piantedosi for clarification on the public complaint of footballer Stephane Omeonga, Belgian citizen, playing for the Israeli Serie A team Bnei Sakhnin, already in the ranks of several Italian teams”, explains Zaratti in a note.
“The event, also told by a video shot by a passenger on the Rome-Tel Aviv flight which shows the officers boarding, pounced on the midfielder and dragged him away by force, would have happened on Christmas Day while the young man was headed to Tel Aviv The existence of an Israeli black list in which people unwelcome in Tel Aviv are reported, a list in which Omeonga’s name is also included, also casts the shadow of a commissioned beating: this is unacceptable! Have we become a country that carries out orders given by other states or do we remain a sovereign country? We would not want the right, stunned by sovereignism, to have lost the meaning of words such as sovereignty and independence”, concludes the Avs exponent.