Surgical masks rained down on the beach from the sky on August 15th, with the election card of a Lega candidate for the regional elections in October attached.
It has unleashed a real uproar among citizens, politicians and environmentalists, in Calabria, the find of Leo Battaglia, aspiring regional councilor of the party of Salvini. In fact, many personal protective equipment, sealed in plastic packages with party symbols printed on them, were dropped from a helicopter onto the beaches crowded with bathers on the coast between Trebisacce and Corigliano and Rossano.
To light the fuse against Salvini's candidate is Legambiente Calabria, who criticized the choice “not only vintage since in the 80s paper flyers were thrown” but pollution factor because “above all, it completely ignores environmental legislation”,.
The candidate for president of the Calabria Region Luigi de Magistris: "a disgrace. The League, instead of polluting the sea and beaches, should - said the current mayor of Naples - since it is in the regional government, operate the purifiers for the sea and dispose of waste".
Tones are more than heated even on social media. "I am truly perplexed," replied Leo Battaglia, the creator of the initiative, "when I read the attacks that have been made against me. A gesture made with the sole purpose of raising awareness among bathers about the use of personal protection systems. There has been no pollution," he added, "for the simple reason that the masks that were not collected by bathers were collected by a team of my friends, so there is no pollution."
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Justifications deemed unconvincing. For the center-left presidential candidate Amalia Bruni “tourists will be able to take a bath among the flyers and plastic that the League has decided to donate to the Calabrian coasts, using them as a natural garbage dump”.
Criticism from Green Europe that with Angelo Bonelli announced that he had filed a complaint about what happened, speaking of an "act of unheard-of imbecility that must be punished" and Nicola Fratoianni of the Italian Left according to which Salvini's followers “they are not satisfied with polluting with their hate speech and fake news, now they are directly polluting the environment”.
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