2024-07-15 03:29:09
(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 14 – “When I saw the images of Trump after the attack, with blood on his face and his arm raised, I immediately thought of the attack suffered by Berlusconi when he was hit in the face by the Duomo statuette”. The President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa told ANSA this. In fact, at 6:20 pm on December 13, 2009, he was there, in Piazza Duomo in Milan, next to the Prime Minister and, he recalls: “I started running after the attacker to catch him, but I couldn’t”. The FI leader, however, raised his arm “with an open hand, to reassure the people”, while Trump “raised his fist, but the scene was really very similar”, he observes. “There are really great similarities between the two episodes”, La Russa insists. Not so much for the episodes themselves because they are obviously different: in Milan there was the throwing of a statuette, in Pennsylvania a gunshot that also caused a victim in the audience. “But the image – he explains – immediately brought it back to my mind. Both with bloody faces and both with their arms raised, one with an open hand and the other with a fist” to “reassure them that they were alive” and that they would continue to fight. And there is a “similarity – he adds – also in the fact that they were both the target of hate campaigns”. And “when there are hate campaigns, regardless of the person who is the target of that hatred, these produce deleterious effects”. (ANSA).
2024-07-15 03:29:09