Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on
Thursday chided what he called "senseless" statements by the
editor of conservative daily Libero, Vittorio Feltri, who said
that southerners were inferior and did not need as much
attention as northerners in the coronavirus emergency.
Di Maio, a southerner, called Feltri's statements "not very
happy and rather aggressive against southerners".
The Italian journalists' guild on Wednesday instructed a
lawyer to weigh whether the image of the profession had been
damaged by Feltri.
On Berlusconi network Rete 4 talk show Fuoro dal Coro, Feltri
said "why on earth should we go to Campania? To be illegal car
parkers?" and said southerners "do not suffer from an
inferiority complex, in many cases they are inferior".
Leftwing Senator and journalist Sandro Ruotolo and writer
Maurizio De Giovanni, both southerners, said earlier they were
suing Feltri for "gravely damaging the fundamental rights of the
people of Campania and the South".
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