Northern League leader Matteo
Salvini came to Naples for a rally Tuesday only to immediately
leave the southern Italian city after being greeted with shouts
of "fool, go away".
The anti-immigrant party's chief was visiting Naples as
part of a tour ahead of the May 25 European elections on pet
topics like leaving the euro and stopping illegal immigration.
The spell on the stump is also intended to raise support
for a referendum revoking controversial pension changes
introduced by the 2011-2012 technocratic government of Mario
Monti.
Upon arriving in Piazza Carlo III, just outside the city
centre, Salvini was greeted by residents shouting insults such
as "Fool, go away, you are the true swine, go wash yourself with
fire". The League leader answered reporters' questions and then
immediately left the city by car.
Naples residents' vitriol was in response to a tweet made
by Salvini following Sunday's Italian Cup shooting of a Napoli
fan in Rome.
The match, which Napoli won 3-1, was delayed for almost an
hour before the head of Napoli's ultras, Gennaro De Tommaso aka
'Genny a carogna' (Genny The Scumbag), gave the OK for the game
to go ahead once he was reassured that no fan had been killed.
Salvini tweeted that "a state which gets laws from Genny
the Scumbag while in the presence of (Italian Premier Matteo)
Renzi and (Interior Minister Angelino) Alfano is a failed
state."
Both Renzi and Alfano were present at the stadium.
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