The national pro-Roberto Vannacci committee was born between right-wing ultras and Northern League supporters and he: “I have nothing to do with it, I’m just a guest”

He swears that he hasn’t yet decided on his candidacy for the European elections and that «I have nothing to do with the committee born from his book. I’m just the guest,” he says Roberto Vannacci, a now suspended general who some of his fans hope to see become “the prime minister in uniform”. The meeting is at 11am in Tirrenia, Hotel Continental. The 36 delegates meetthe members and supporters of “The world in reverse”, a cultural committee «freely inspired» by the contents of the book of the same name. There is a sign in the hall: it explains that the committee «puts the normality of freedom back at the center». And for the approximately 80 present – almost all men over 60 – “normality” is the set of “values ​​that Vannacci defends”, “freedom” is that “of expression, put to sleep by the guardians of political correctness”. There is a meeting of delegates. Then off to the aperitif: squash, fried food and flutes on the tables, the former Forza Nuova, Casapound then in Azione Identitaria and now secretary of the Bruno Spatara committee at the entrance.

Black sweater, paratrooper tattoo on his arm, checks who comes near the buffet area. Sympathizers and members enter. Journalists don’t: “I know you’ll try to infiltrate, I’m on you,” he says. Among those present, who arrived from north to south, theformer paratrooper and former mayoral candidate of FdI in Pietrasanta Massimiliano Simoni (Tuscan president of the committee), the policeman and former mayoral candidate for the centre-right in Livorno Andrea Romiti and some Tuscan Northern League members like the paratrooper Luca Tacchi.

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«Am I registered? There is privacy. And then there are also tourists here” says a boy. The woman who is with him walks away. Is there perhaps embarrassment in being here? If asked straight away, the vannaccino or, who knows, vannacciano, he doesn’t answer. Lunch is served in the next room. In the queue there is a retired couple from Cecina. Flavio is a former railway worker, Lucia worked in a law firm. «I agree with what is written in the book, there was a desire to misunderstand. What he said about Egonu is a fact » she says. A supporter from Montecatini Terme infiltrates: «Egonu is black, I’m yellow. Is this racism? No one attacked those who said that Sinner is not Italian because he has a German accent. So aren’t Piedmontese people with a French accent Italian? And the Neapolitans? What about homosexuals? «Normality is what the majority has in common – he continues -. Then my best friend is gay, I don’t have it against them. It’s a different sexual taste. They are also more sensitive.” Flavio intervenes on Meloni: «He gets kisses from Biden because there are the European Championships and he understood that with his program it would last 3 months». When the risotto arrives, there are those who talk about electoral campaigns, about someone who “had a fascist father”. Susanna Ceccardi, Northern League MEP, arrives, accompanied among others by regional councilor Massimo Baldini. “I showed him my solidarity for the attacks of the last few months, there has been a media frenzy” she says.

The reserve “did not dissolve it”. But how many votes can Vannacci bring, which now has a cultural committee with 250 members? “Several” we hear the reply. «He will become the prime minister in uniform» says Guido Guastalla, an art dealer who tried to run for mayor of Livorno. You see paratrooper pins and tattoos, someone talks about missions, “but there are only 5 paratroopers” says the president of the Committee, Fabio Filomeni, a former raider who 2 years ago returned a medal because the NATO assembly defined Russia as “a terrorist state”. Now he has founded the committee which, he underlines, was «born to disseminate the book. As a fellow soldier I will always be at the side of what is militarily defined as comrade. When I saw that the press was distorting the meaning, I thought it couldn’t be left alone.”

No political movement, he insists, and “maybe it never will be, I don’t know” he says. «I have many opportunities, I will decide when I want. Ceccardi’s visit It wasn’t planned and I wouldn’t rewrite anything about the book. In the second, which will be released soon, I explain better what I meant by intertwining it with my life” continues Vannacci. Also in the room were the national coordinators, Norberto De Angelis, former Paralympic champion, and Patrizia Biagi, immigration manager for the League in Sicily, previously a candidate for the regional elections with an anti-Equitalia list, and the treasurer Gianluca Priolo, former raider. There are photos, autographs. A couple passes outside and sees Vannacci: “For the love of God,” he says. And he leaves.