The centre-right candidate for the Lombardy Region: “There are too many immigrants”. Then the clarification: “It was a slip of the tongue”. But the left immediately goes on the attack
Of Claudio Cartaldo
The case breaks out over the words of Attilio Fontana. Interviewed by Radio Padania, Indeed, the centre-right candidate expressed his opinion on the boom in migrants arriving in Italy.
And that's exactly it “white race” to have raised a fuss. The former mayor of Varese was Roberto Maggi's guest during the broadcast “On the road to freedom” of the radio Northern League member. “A serious state – Fontana said – should plan and say: we want and believe it is right that they can be welcomed 1, 100mila, 10 millions of immigrants, say how we want to assist them, which houses, we want to give them jobs and schools, at that point ask the citizens if they agree“. And again: “It is demagogic and unacceptable to say that we must accept them, it is a discussion to which we must react, we must rebel: we cannot accept them all. It would mean that there would no longer be us as a social and ethnic reality, because they are many more than us, because they are much more determined than us in occupying this territory. Faced with these statements we must rebel, we cannot accept them, because here it is not a question of being xenophobic or racist, but logical and rational: we can't because we all don't fit, so we have to make choices, decide whether our ethnicity, white race, company must continue to exist or be canceled, it's a choice. If the majority of Italians were to say we want to eliminate ourselves it would mean that we who don't want to eliminate ourselves will go somewhere else“.
Fontana (League): “Immigrants? we risk erasing the white race”After the farewell of Roberto Maroni, the former mayor of Varese is in pole position to win the leadership of the most important region in Italy. After the breakup of the center-left up Giorgio Gori, the challenger of the Democratic Party who will not be supported by LeU di Pietro Grasso, polls give the center-right the advantage. And it is Gori himself who is the first to respond to Fontana's positions expressed on Radio Padania: “There are those who talk about pitchforks and the white race – said the mayor of Bergamo – We talk about training, Work, growth, Europe, without hysteria and demagogy“.
Fontana then clarified: “It was a slip of the tongue, an expressive error, I meant that we must reorganize a different welcome that respects our history, our company”. He also intervened on the matter Matteo Salvini, leader of the League. “In government we will regulate every Islamic presence in the country. Exactly as Oriana Fallaci claimed in unsuspecting times, we are under attack, our culture is at risk, society, traditions, way of life. E’ an invasion is underway, landings also resumed in January. Skin color has nothing to do with it and there is a very real danger: centuries of history that risk disappearing if the hitherto underestimated Islamization takes over”.
