The Carabinieri have opened an
internal probe into an officer who is suspected of helping
rightwing strongman Matteo Salvini stage a regional election
stunt in Bologna last week.
According to local sources, the unnamed officer may have put
Salvini in touch with a woman in the Pilastro district whose son
had died of drugs and who led the former minister to the home of
the alleged pusher, a 17-year-old Tunisian boy.
Surrounded by a film crew and a crowd of supporters for his
campaign in the Emilia Romagna elections, the League leader
buzzed the intercom and asked if a pusher was living there.
The boy is suing the nationalist opposition leader, who lost
the elections Sunday.
Salvini's opponents decried the stunt while the Tunisian
ambassador called it an unacceptable breach of privacy.
Facebook on Tuesday took down a video Salvini had posted of
the stunt.
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