Giuseppe De Cristofaro unleashed himself on social media after Luciano Spalletti’s Napoli won the Scudetto.
Luca Cirillo5 MAY 2023 23:22
Joseph de Cristofaro Neapolitan politician, exponent of the Italian Left, Senator of the Republic and President of the mixed group that passed to the Ministry of Universities and Research on August 9, 2020, headed by Minister Gaetano Manfredi (current Mayor of Naples). He published a post that caused a lot of thought and discussion. These are his words: “Napoli wins the Scudetto but loses the basic income” I could hardly believe that this sentence was actually uttered yesterday on Rete 4 after Napoli’s victory. It’s always the right thing. His culture of hatred and intolerance towards the different, the migrants, the poor and this time, as so often, towards a generic Neapolitan who would live off northern taxpayers. And it is also the lack of even the slightest sense of humility and respect that allows such an explicitly racist and class message to be broadcast by a television network of national importance.
Then he added: “On average, Napoli, who win, do not like the right, because the right like poor people, who lose sporting result, because salvation is a serious matter that requires an investment of human capital and resources, more political will is required, not the comfortable tales of eleven boys chasing a ball, which can bring great joy to my city and, in any case, to its many fans who have emigrated to Italy and around the world”.
And he also pressed: “It’s always the right thing. Not surprisingly, the attacks on ordinary Neapolitan supporters on the field in Udine and on the streets and squares of other cities are all attributable to gangs with a clear political orientation. Those who should be resolved, as we are urging in Parliament, which collide with the rubber wall of Minister Piantedosi and the Government, whose expression is the perpetrators of these attacks on people who, without disturbing anyone, just celebrated the victory of their team’s heart. Forced to do this away from their own city because we have not been able to create a country capable of offering equal opportunities to everyone, regardless of where they were born”.
“In Naples, a 26-year-old boy originally from Ponticelli, a neighborhood in the eastern suburbs, was murdered during the night. The Prefect Palomba – unlike some newspapers, which immediately took over the narrative without any reaction to the scatter bullets during the party – he considers it “absolutely independent, not connected to the celebrations”. From many sides – he added – the hypothesis of an ambush, of reckoning makes itself felt. Well, when I think of these neighborhoods, I get poverty, humiliation, dropping out of school, the lack of structures conducive to socialization, unemployment, the Camorra: a conglomerate of incendiary ills to which the common income offered significant, albeit partial and insufficient, relief had”.
Finally, he concluded: “And when the law shows its abrogation like a scalp, it does nothing surprising in the context of its perpetual struggle, not against poverty, but against the poor. But let’s avoid the rhetoric of redemption. Ransom is a serious matter. Let’s not confuse it with the ball. We must put our best energies into salvation.