More chaos in the Chamber. The M5S deputy, Leonardo Donno, tried to deliver an Italian flag to minister Roberto Calderoli. The President of the Chamber, Lorenzo Fontana, he expelled him. Some right-wing parliamentarians got in the way and then «Iezzi punched him repeatedly on the head – reports Nicola Fratoianni – and fell to the ground.” The M5S deputy was taken away by paramedics in a wheelchair. In the fight, in addition to Donno, it is a parliamentary assistant was also involved, hit in the face and stomach, his colleagues report. He would have been carried by arm to the infirmary.
Brawl in the Chamber, Northern League member punches a 5S deputy: a clerk injured
Donno: “They hit me in the sternum”
«They are squad members, the fights in Parliament are unacceptable – this is how MP Donno comments on the brawl in which he was the protagonist –. I will report my attackers, they hit me in the sternum and took the breath away. I had an electrocardiogram 7-8 times.” Then he accuses whoever hit him: «I couldn’t understand well in the confusion, but they tried and also managed to hit me with kicks and punches Iezzi, Candiani, Cangiano, Amich… Parliamentarians of the League and Brothers of Italy. They told me there are videos. I’ll see if I can take action.”
Brawl in the Chamber, Donno attacked by centre-right deputies: Northern League member Iezzi is accused
Iezzi defends himself: “I didn’t hit Donno, I move away and then he falls like a pear”
Igor Iezzi denies Donno: «I tried to punch him, but I didn’t hit him. Donno tried to attack Calderoli and I reacted. I walk away and then he falls like a pear. His act should be condemned. Repent? It is a reaction that is not justified but caused by a reason.” Thus the Northern League deputy Iezzi explains to The mosquito on Radio 24. «There was no physical violence – he continues – I will be expelled from the Chamber, Donno too but his act should be condemned. I hope he is given more days of expulsion for this act.”
Brawl in the Chamber, the Northern League member Iezzi: “Donno did two bad things but I didn’t hit him”
Francesco Grignetti
The defense of Amich, Cangiano and Candiani
«Colleague Donno, evidently got the wrong person in the chaos. From the images you can see it very well that I approached the fray only to remove the flag that Donno himself provocatively wanted to give to Minister Calderoli. My position, from the videos circulating, is so far from the 5-star deputy that I cannot allow any aggression” he claims Gimmi Cangiano, deputy of the Brothers of Italy. Also Enzo Amich he slips out: «There was a provocation on the part of Donno who came down from the benches to meet a 75 year old manminister, a gesture of contempt and lack of respect. This led to a sort of turmoil and I did nothing other than go down into the chamber to try to push away the people who were already there.”
The Northern League member is of the same opinion Candiani: «Shame, shame, shame. The physical aggression and provocation made by MP Donno to Calderoli, Minister of the Republic, in the Chamber at Montecitorio are unspeakable. Free provocations against the majority and the League have been coming from the Dem and Grillini benches all afternoon. Until this unspeakable episode. Donno created the conditions for a non-qualifiable brawl and, what’s more, he aggravated the situation by simulating an attack he never suffered, by inventing falsehoods.”
The M5S accuses: shameful attack on Donno, squad majority
«The attack that occurred in the Chamber against Leonardo Donno it is a very serious and shameful fact. Our MP he just wanted to deliver an Italian flag to Minister Calderoliwhen it was physically attacked by majority parliamentarians including the Northern League member Iezzibeing punched and falling to the ground. We ask for serious and immediate measures against this act of real squadrism perpetrated within the institutions which tarnishes our democracy and qualifies those who did it” is the complaint from the 5 Star Movement.
The Democratic Party: squad-based aggression from the League
«The limit has truly been crossedwe have witnessed an attack that had squadism on the part of some members of the League in particular from Iezzi who beat up a colleague from the M5s. An act of violence never seen before in a parliamentary chamber. Now we have the group leader but we cannot accept any discussion or work being resumed without all the necessary measures being taken because we all saw what happened. We must assume an immediate reaction because what happened is unworthy and unacceptable». The group leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber, Chiara Braga, said this while conversing with reporters on Transatlatico about what happened in the chamber.
The League: “Parliamentary dynamics”
«Parliamentary dynamics…». In Transatlantico, at Montecitorio, the group leader in the Chamber of the League, Riccardo Molinari raises his arms and tries to downplay when they ask him what he thinks of the incandescent climate and consequent uproar that broke out in the Chamber during the examination of the Differentiated Autonomy with the exponent as protagonists del Carroccio, Igor Iezzi, and the five-star Leonardo Donno.
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