The imaginary chronicles from Cutro
What has been written and what has been imagined on the extraordinary council of ministers in Cutro. Damato's Scratches
Reading certain political reports from and about Cutro, where the extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers was held to exacerbate "the war against smugglers" and at the same time widen the links of regular immigration after the massacre on the night of February 26, the photo " opportunity” of the event should not be that of the prime minister, the two vice presidents, the ministers and the main undersecretary of Palazzo Chigi lined up in front of the journalists for the press conference. Instead, it should be the narrower one of Giorgia Meloni with her fingers resting on her forehead that the irrepressible Matteo Salvini suffers, managed to celebrate her "first 50 years", as Libero greeted them, stripping her of role and functions, i.e. imposing her own line. His, for example, remained the management of the ports and the Coast Guard , in spite of the provision of the decree law, skipped at the last moment, which sought to increase the functions of the Minister of Defense, and party colleague of the Prime Minister: the physically giant Guido Crosetto.
Certain restrictive measures included in the decree after a failed attempt to include them in another provision being examined by Parliament would also be yours from Salvini. In short, a politically "black" day for the premier, as the usual Fatto Quotidiano headlined. But not only politically, because someone has also put it on a moral level by imparting lessons, in the form of advice, to the prime minister who is the victim of her "guilt complex": she also passed through the streets of Cutro, in her armored car, without a minimum of true humanity. Not feeling, for example, the opportunity to go to Crotone before or after the government meeting, where the still unburied coffins lie, and instead announcing the summoning of the families of the victims and survivors to Palazzo Chigi in the coming days.
Lucia Annunziata, the editorialist of La Stampa to whom perhaps Meloni should have offered – who knows – the post of head of the press office conferred instead on Mario Sechi, thus commented on a certain nervousness of the premier in the face of the pressing questions and protests of journalists in the press conference: “No, ma'am. We understood that you are strong, that the State is present to itself and that the penalties are ready. However, many of us doubt not strength, but mercy. One of the soft toys thrown at the government motorcade was Winnie the Pooh teddy bear. After the government motorcade passed, he remained on the asphalt, ignored and watched by a policeman in riot gear. Perhaps it would have been enough to stop the car and pick up the teddy bear. Think strength in this “rescue” from the road, running out of water. But if she had done so, given a certain journalism practice, someone would have cynically accused Meloni of having picked up the teddy bear only to take it to her daughter in Rome.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-cronache-immaginarie-da-cutro/ on Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:40:52 +0000.