(see previous).
A committee of
the wives of Pomigliano automobile plant workers on Wednesday
called for Pope Francis to refuse a Fiat Panda said to have been
given to him by workers at the southern car plant.
"The acritical acceptance of the 'gift' would offend both
the living and the memory of the workers who committed suicide
in Pomigliano and Nola," reads the statement.
Pope Francis on Wednesday morning received the offer of the
gift produced on the assembly lines of the Campania region
plant, and took the keys at his general audience in St Peter's
Square.
The committee stated that the "gift" was "not from the
workers, it was from Fiat" and that the workers who had brought
the car to him had been paid for doing so by the company.
The gift came from "CEO Marchionne, who in a single year
takes home as much as all of his workers put together", said the
committee.
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