Grillo jokes again: “Sighted a retired plumber with a balaclava repairing manhole covers. Stop, it was a boutade”

“Please stop. It was a boutade. But is it possible that you take everything seriously?”. Beppe Grillo ironic again. Over the weekend, controversy arose over his shocking phrase about the citizens’ brigades: “Put on a balaclava and at night, do the chores, arrange the sidewalks, the flower beds, the manhole covers, without attracting attention, react!”, pronounced on Saturday by the stage at the end of the M5S procession against precariousness. Now on social media with a video you are once again using the register of paradox, imagining that there are citizens who have taken seriously your call to create citizenship brigades to carry out socially useful work. So he mentions retired plumbers and workers who set to work at night forming the citizens’ brigades invoked by Grillo. on Citizenship Brigades

And therefore he ironically addresses a new appeal to them. “I mean: stop, because I have received some truly dramatic news. A 74-year-old pensioner was sighted, a plumber who was fixing six manhole covers at night with a balaclava. Stop! A 64-year-old Albanian with a trowel fixed eight sidewalks during the night with a balaclava. We cannot go on like this. Stop. We also need a law: the government must react. It must make a law. Abolish the abuse of office and put – the M5S guarantor still ironically – the abuse of socially useful jobs. Stop it, be consistent with yourselves, with the government and with politics. Stop it because otherwise an optimal mess really breaks out”.

Where the secretary of the Democratic Party also stopped by to say hello Elly Schlein. Words that have been criticized by the center-right (“It is instigation to violence”) from Forza Italia to Fratelli d’Italia, from the League to Maurizio Lupi. From calendar to Italia Viva di Renzi. The Pd with Serracchiani he distanced himself (“The show is not funny”). And then relaunched yesterday on social media again by the guarantor who posted the photo of a man with an M5S t-shirt and balaclava, holding a sign with the inscription “Brigade of citizenship – assault department”.