A pig in Rome trash whose picture
was posted by a rightwing party as an alleged indictment of Rome
Mayor Virginia Raggi's inaction over the crisis was in fact
owned by a notorious Rome crime family, the first citizen said
Wednesday.
"I'm sorry for (Brothers of Italy leader) Giorgia Meloni but
we have traced that pig to the Casamonica family who said that
it strayed," Raggi said.
Brothers of Italy responded by saying Raggi and her
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement should be "ashamed" of the
trash emergency and "try to clean up the capital".
"What do they mean, that a pig should be allowed to root
around in rubbish just because it is owned by the Casamonicas?",
the FdI said.
Meanwhile comic Gene Gnocchi enraged rightists by saying that
the pig was named Claretta Petacci, Benito Mussolini's mistress.
"Claretta, who committed no sin aside from being murdered for
love alongside Mussolini, has now been shamefully compared to a
pig," said rightwing daily Il Giornale.
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