Meloni condemns the clashes in Milan, "Anyone who demonstrates against the Olympics is an enemy of Italy"

“Thousands and thousands of Italians are working during these hours to ensure that everything works during the Olympics. Many do it as volunteers, because they want their nation to make a good impression, to be admired and respected. Then there are them: the enemies of Italy and Italianswho demonstrate “against the Olympics”, causing these images to end up on television around the world”. So the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloniin a post on social media, about the clashes that occurred last night in Milan.

“After others severed the railway cables to prevent the trains from leaving.”

“Solidarityonce again, at Law enforcementat the city ​​of Milanand to all those who will see their work frustrated by these gangs of criminals” concludes Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, relaunching a film – from the US broadcaster Fox News – in which some images of the clashes are seen.

Crosetto, agents kicked by violent men and the ‘State’

The government wants to “prevent state servants from being kicked one day by the demonstrators and then by the state (written in lowercase on purpose) itself in the following weeks”: writes the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosettoin a post on

“They’re not dangerous criminals”, Crosetto jokes, “those they have cut the cables to stop the trains from leaving and demonstrated violently against the Olympics. No. Is it rather the government that wants to look for the pretext for? For what? In order to prevent the kind boys who demonstrated their freedom in Turin, trying to caress a dangerous big man dressed in a uniform with a ‘gavel’, from being released after 3 days in time perhaps to be in Milan to do the same things? To prevent state servants from being kicked one day by protesters and then by the state (written in lowercase on purpose) itself in the following weeks? To give more resources to those who defend citizens, laws and democracy, compared to those who want to destroy it?”.

“Why we cannot be united at least when is it right to be so, in condemning violent criminals and in defending the rule of law?”, asked Crosetto. “Why does even a former police chief try to argue?” added the minister, “among other things, forgetting his own political culture, which is the same as mine, and his own history because I remember very well the ‘Gabrielli circular’ the following day the events in Piazza San Carlo, rightly very harsh. Why is it not possible to be a community when it would be necessary to be? Anyone who behaves like yesterday in Milan or last week in Turin is not doing so against the ‘pro tempore’ Government, he is doing so against the State, the Republic, Italy. Tolerating it means weakening Italy, not Meloni.”