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Man protests anti-disabled review online

Business criticised for hosting wheelchair users

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - Florence, July 26 - A disabled man in Italy has launched an online campaign in protest at a review on TripAdvisor in which a holiday village in the Abruzzo region was criticised for hosting a group of wheelchair-bound people.
    Iacopo Melio, 22, is using the hashtag #vorreiprendereiltreno (I'd like to take the train) to raise awareness of the campaign.
    The anonymous reviewer, who gave a one-star rating to the business, said: "It's not a nice sight for my kids to see people suffering on a wheelchair from morning until evening".
    In a response posted on Facebook, Melio said: "If I have children one day, they will know that pain, the real kind, is hidden in indifference and not in illness".
    Melio said he would be going on holiday this year "along with all the 'special' people of the world, who have nothing special about them aside from their uniqueness".
   

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