I wasn't referring to Olympics - Raggi

(ANSA) - Rome, May 31 - Anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) Rome mayoral candidate Virginia Raggi on Tuesday denied saying it was "criminal" for the city to bid for the 2024 Olympics with its huge budget deficit. "It's criminal to neglect and snub the real problems of Romans, thinking only of realising big public works, I obviously wasn't referring to the Olympics, about which there is no prejudice on the M5S's part, even if our line doesn't change: Rome must first think of the ordinary and then the extraordinary," she told ANSA after Italian Olympic Committee chief Giovanni Malagò called her alleged 'criminal' jibe "humiliating, offensive and incomprehensible".