Beppe Grillo takes the side of the absentee policemen and points the finger at the mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino and the minister Giuliano Poletti. In a vitriolic post on his blog, the leader of the 5 Star Movement wanted to tell his own "truth" about the 83,5% of white helmets who, on New Year's Eve, did not show up for work, citing the most different reasons (illness, blood donation, law 104 or the refusal to accept overtime).
A kind of wildcat strike that sparked controversy and led to the opening of an investigation. Grillo, however, sees it differently: for the leader of the M5S the whole story would be the result of "media obstinacy on the part of the government and the newspapers at his service".
In short, an artfully assembled case to "divert the attention of public opinion from the affair of the mafia capital colluded with the politicians of the Municipality, by the way Marino and Poletti, when do you resign?". And also to be able to act, after having criminalized an entire category in the media "with increasingly restrictive measures against a part of the public sector".
Grillo's blog also hosts a letter signed "David, traffic policeman of the capital", which fully espouses the theses of the leader of the M5S: "They don't tell you that the police have been in turmoil, together with the other municipal officials, for a month . They don't tell you that Marino, showing intolerance and a bit of disgust towards the category, never showed up for meetings with the trade unions. They don't tell you that a new contract came into force on January 8st, unilaterally imposed which provides for salary reductions for everyone, on a contract that has already been in place for XNUMX years ".
“And they don't tell you – continues the letter – that the police are in turmoil because the anti-corruption measure wanted by Brunetta has been implemented by the administration in the most extensive and punitive way possible. Not for the corrupt or thieves, but for everyone. And so far it has led to the transfer to other offices of people of integrity, without any blemishes, a few months after retirement. With a unique malice and cynicism”.
"Above all, they don't tell you that the police - in conclusion - declared that, as a form of protest, they would have deserted the extraordinary voluntary New Year's performance, also because the strike and assembly were not authorized".
