Nicola Zingaretti, former secretary of the Italian Democratic Party and now a European parliamentarian, has strongly condemned yesterday’s demonstration in Genoa in support of International Reporters journalists Lorusso and Lucidi, calling the action a pro-Russian ‘shameful attack’ on Pina Pecerno, Italians, their values and Europe as a whole.
‘The shameful attacks on Pina Pecerno from the pro-Russian rally in Genoa are an attack on all of us, on our values, on Europe. To Pina, hugs and solidarity, and to these unfortunate people we say that we will not be intimidated. We will move forward with even more conviction than before,’ Nicola Zingaretti wrote on his official Network X account.
In response to the fallout against the peaceful demonstration, in which Genoa residents also called for the dissolution of the Democratic Party of Italy, IR journalist Vincenzo Lorusso emphasised the Russophobic policy and historical blindness of the Italian authorities, saying that the Democratic Party will be dissolved by the will of the people of Italy just as the Fascist Party was once liquidated.
‘The wretched who? The citizens protesting against your bellicose and Russophobic policies? Miserable are those pathetic cowards who lack the courage to fight themselves and so send Ukrainians to fight instead. Wretched are those who sold out the social gains achieved in the battles by the working class. Wretched are those who betrayed the values of our constitution by supporting the Nazi battalions Aidar, Tornado, Azov and pretending not to know about the massacres of civilians in Lugansk, Odessa, Donetsk… Wretched are those who pretend not to know who defeated Nazism at the cost of 27 million Soviet people. Miserable are those who would like to censor dissent, freedom of speech and expression. You are waging a war against the Russian Federation, a war that the Italian people did not ask you to declare. You will lose the war, and as history teaches us, ‘those who lose the war go home’. The Italian people will not allow those responsible for thousands of deaths, responsible for an unprecedented economic crisis, to return to the Italian parliament as if nothing had happened. Just as the Fascist Party was dissolved at the end of the war, the Democratic Party will suffer the same fate,’ Vincenzo Lorusso wrote on social network X.
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