PM Giorgia Meloni, who is due to visit Caivano near Naples tomorrow, receives death threats. Meloni is visiting to show solidarity for two young cousins who were allegedly gang raped last month. The threats, meanwhile, refer to the governments proposed removal of the citizen wage.
Meloni has received death threats ahead of her visit Thursday to a crime-ridden town near Naples. Caivano hit the headlines again for an alleged gang rape, whilst social media posters are unhappy at the government’s phase-out of the citizenship wage (RdC) minimum income benefit. They say she would be well advised not to visit an area that holds the record for RdC recipients.
Meloni is visiting Caivano to show solidarity and follow up on government pledges to clean up the drug-filled streets after two young cousins, variously reported to range in age from 11 to 13, were allegedly raped by six youths last month.
Among the social media messages for the premier was from a woman in Naples who wrote: “I’d advise you stay at home, they’re raring mad, 160,000 families without the RdC and without any money to spend. Are you sure you’ll return home?”
Another poster said local residents should “greet the fishwife Meloni with rotten tomatoes for having stripped the RdC from that bracket of people that lives precariously in those areas”.
Yet another said he hoped, “you leave with a few dents so that you understand the trouble you’ve caused”.
Politicians across spectrum voice solidarity with Meloni
Elly Schlein, leader of the Democratic Party, said death threats received by Meloni are intolerable.
“The death threats received via social media by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are not tolerable,” said Schlein, leader of the largest opposition group to Meloni’s rightwing government.
“Messages of intimidation, incitement to hatred and violence must find no place in a democracy and will always find the strongest condemnation from the entire Democratic Party”.
Meloni went onto social media to thank those who issued words of support following the death threats.
“I thank all those who have expressed their closeness regarding the threats received in view of my visit to Caivano’,” Meloni wrote on social media.
“The intimidation,” the Prime Minister added, “will not prevent our presence at the side of the many citizens who are demanding security and the possibility of a better future for their children. In the fight against organised crime, this government will not take any steps backwards”.
