Schlein “defends” the polluters of Palazzo Vecchio. Renzi: “Listen to them? They are vandals”

If it’s not a defense, at least it looks a lot like an excuse. The secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein last night, a guest of Tonight there is Cattelan on Rai Due, he used opening words towards the Last Generation activists responsible for the defacing of the facade of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence last week.

“Regardless of the chosen method which I cannot agree with, we must not make the mistake of looking too much at the finger and not at the Moon. They’re just asking to hear the science“, Schlein said referring to environmental activists. “When we were faced with the drama of the pandemic, we politicians and institutions had to rely on those who knew the most. But if we did it with the pandemic, why don’t we do it on the climate instead?”, he then continued to argue. Explaining that “ecological conversion is a process that must be accompanied. We need to put the resources into it”. In short, the point according to the leader of the Democratic Party is not to focus on the gesture itself, which I “do not agree with”, but to look at its overall meaning.

The fact is that Schlein’s words immediately seemed out of tune with the attitude of the citizen of Florence himself Dario Nardellaof the Democratic Party. Who not only moved himself to block the impurities. But who generally spoke of these acts as a sign of “barbarism and incivility” because they are contrary to the protection of the cultural heritage of Italian cities.

More or less the same line expressed by Matthew Renzi, who read Schlein’s words with concern, “He said that whoever defaces the buildings of institutions must be listened to because they ask to listen to science. Anyone who defaced Palazzo Vecchio is not a follower of science: he is a vandal who does harm to culture , to the beauty, to the identity of a people. Those who vandalize art don’t deserve to be heard: they deserve to be punished“, he wrote on Twitter. Making the distance between the reformist culture and those who instead cling to exasperated environmentalism that gives easy solutions to ultra-complex problems even more plastic: precisely by throwing paint on a 1300s building.