«Nooo, please don't make me pass for someone who hates Barbagia and Sardinia, where I have spent my holidays for twenty years and I have many friends. I am someone who has simply mentioned a territory that is not densely populated ... ».
Where, he said, illegal immigrants awaiting repatriation could be housed . There are those who have read reminiscences of the times in which Barbagia welcomed those who were sent there as punishment.
«But no, I mentioned Barbagia because I remember trips and excursions to Gennargentu, and for miles and miles we didn't meet a soul. It was the first example that came to my mind and yes, given the pandemonium that followed, perhaps I should have mentioned an area closer to me ... ».
Even the Lombard valleys, such as those of Trentino and Piedmont, have serious problems of decline in births and depopulation.
"It's so true. But I don't think that if I had mentioned Val Camonica, the inhabitants would have been so offended ».
In the aftermath of the externalization on the possible solution to the problem "of those who do not have the documents in order", Alessandro Rapinese, 46, mayor of Como elected head of a civic list since June, finds himself "with his cell phone on fire". His comment on the news of the Pakistani homeless man arrested in the city for rape and the reference to Barbagia to confine those who (the substance was this) jeopardize the safety of citizens, set fire to the anger of fellow administrators in Sardinia and even stoked ( not that there was a need) the electoral campaign of policies, in a general bipartisan indignation that mixes the theme of migrants with that of the depopulation of inland areas.
Mayor, the Sardinian deputy of Fratelli d'Italia Salvatore Deidda says that, to apologize, she has to post advertising posters for the Autumn festival in Barbagia all over Como.
