Naples anti-mafia writer Roberto
Saviano blasted anti-immigrant Northern League leader Matteo
Salvini on Facebook Wednesday, joining with others who have
criticised Salvini's choice to don a police uniform during a
speech on Monday in which he called for "a controlled ethnic
cleansing" of Italian cities from migrants.
Saviano said Salvini's remarks about giving broad-based
powers to police and Carabinieri was an insinuation that torture
would be tolerated.
"Any honest police officer would feel shame for this
insinuation," Saviano wrote.
"Violent police officers generate corruption, disorder and
push away every possibility for justice".
Salvini responded on his own Facebook page by mocking
Saviano.
"Roberto Saviano's insults make me smile," Salvini wrote.
"Between law enforcement and crooks, I'm with law
enforcement. Greetings to the rich writer, escorted by many
patient police officers," Salvini wrote.
Saviano has been under state police protection since 2006,
when his book Gomorra, about the Naples Camorra mafia, was
published.
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