Roberto Calderoli
Roberto Calderoli (born the April 18th 1956 with Bergamo, in Italy) is a Italian Politician. Vice-president of the Senate of 2001 with 2004, Minister for the institutional reforms of July 2004 with the February 18th 2006 in the government of Silvio Berlusconi, it is one of the leaders of the Ligue of North, the party of xenophobe extreme-right-hand side directed by Umberto Bossi.
Roberto Calderoli is a former doctor specialized in the maxillo-facial surgery. It entered to the government in July 2004 to replace Umberto Bossi victim of an cardiac arrest.
Scandals and controversies
Castration of the sexual delinquents
In 2002, he recommends, in what wants to be a joke, the penal castration of the authors of sexual offenses of a blow of not sterilized scissors. He besides affectionate this surgical instrument because he also advised with all the Italians to have permanently a scissors in their handbag to deny oneself the “bestial aggressions of the immigrants”.
International crisis of the caricatures of Mahomet
At the time of the International crisis of the caricatures of Mahomet, he asks for to the pope Benoît XVI of launching a new crusade against the Muslim world, on February 14th, 2006, Roberto Calderoli announces that it ordered Tee-shirts carrying the caricatures of Mahomet. “I was made make Tee-shirt with the caricatures disputed by Islam and I will carry them as of today. I am ready to offer some to who will ask it to me”. According to him this initiative is a call to the dialog: “I would not qualify this initiative of provocation. Rather an invitation with the dialog. ” However he judged very severely the violent reactions of the demonstrators. “It is necessary to finish some with this fable that it is necessary to seek the dialog with these people-there. They want to humiliate us. A point it is all. Fortunately that in Europe, there are still leaders as the Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel who say that we, Européens, will not give up our models of life. Because it is necessary to finish some with this tendency to lower the pants and with the hypocritical distinctions between terrorist Islam and peaceful Islam. ”February 16th, 2006, the minister shows his Tee-shirt by opening his shirt at the time of the Tv news of 20:00 on the first chain of the SPOKE.
February 17th, in Libya, a violent demonstration made up of a thousand of demonstrator took place in front of the consulate of Italy de Benghazi to protest against the caricatures of Mahomet. The consulate was burnt and several people died in the confrontation with the police force Libyan.
February 17th at the evening, in order to alleviate the situation Silvio Berlusconi request the resignation of Roberto Calderoli. This one agrees to be dislocated at the end of an extraordinary meeting of the direction of the Ligue of North in the residence of Umberto Bossi close to Varese. He thus explained: “I gave my mandate to president Berlusconi by direction of the responsibilities and not because that was required of me by the majority and the opposition. I do not want to allow the continuation of the ashamed instrumentalisation made against me and the League of north, including by members of the majority”.
February 18th, 2006, vis-a-vis the reproaches which it undergoes, it declares with the newspaper Corriere beyond Will be: “I do not feel responsible for these deaths”. “I never wanted to offend the Islamic religion. But during last the weeks, we attended demonstrations of an incredible violence in many Moslem countries against the representations of Western countries which culminated with the assassination of a priest and the massacre of sisters and civilians, culprits to have another religion that Islam. This true attack against the Occident worries me much and should also worry those which are charged to control”,
Equip with France
It is again pointed out the July 12th 2006, by affirming that Italy “beat a team which, to obtain results, sacrificed her identity by aligning negros, Moslems and Communists. ”. He greeted the championship of the world like “a victory of the Italian identity, of a team which aligned of Lombards, Neapolitan, Venetian and the Calabrians and which gained against a team of France which sacrificed its own identity by aligning blacks, the islamist ones and Communists to obtain results. ”
After having received the protests of the ambassador of France in Italy, Calderoli refuses to present its excuses and explains “when I say that the team of France is made up of blacks, islamist and Communists, I say an objective and obvious thing. (...) France is a multiethnic nation, considering its past colonialist, that of which I would not be proud. But it is not my fault so some remained perplexed in front of a team which aligned seven blacks out of eleven players, if Barthez (the goalkeeper) sings the International one instead of the Marseillaise and so some prefer Mecque in Bethlehem. ”
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