The four "golden" supporters. Salvini, I would like to kiss them. And the controversy breaks out

The gold of the four blue-colored supporters at the Mediterranean Games has become a political case: the center-left interprets it as the best hard answer on Lega migrants, since it happened on day of the Pontida meeting, but Matteo Salvini dismissed the controversy. "I love Italy who wins" he badured, "At the Mediterranean Games, we won 150 medals and I applaud everyone, white and black, who won with the Italian jersey There are only a few left-wing poor who distinguish human beings according to the color of their skin. "

On Sunday, the photo of 4 × 400 girls posing in Tarragona after the triumph immediately became viral and Many comments were made against the Minister of the Interior with the ironic hashtag #primeleitaliane.So Roberto Saviano, long in controversy with Salvini, celebrated the success of Libania Grenot, Maria Benedicta Chigbolu, Ayomide Folorunso and Raphaela Lukudo. "Their talent and smiles are the answer to Pontida's Italy," he reads, "racist, cheat, quack and violent. Afro-Italian athletes? New Italians? Italian athletes, period. Multicultural Italy, born of the republican dream of its founders, will not be stopped. "

League leader Lega Matteo Salvini wrote on Facebook:" All right, I would like to meet and kiss them. As everyone has understood (with the exception of some right-handed and left-handed thinkers) – he continues – the problem is the presence of hundreds of thousands of clandestine immigrants who unfortunately do not flee war or war they bring her home, certainly not girls and boys who, whatever the color of their skin, contribute to grow our country. Applause. "The chic radical in this picture we see only athletes of color to exploit," lamented the leader of the Brothers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, "I see the Italian flag flutter." Hurray our girls. "

The DP, however, immediately made the #primeleitalian hashtag raising controversy with the league. The vice-president of the House, Ettore Rosato, ironically jokes about the playful posture taken by the girls in the photo: "Salvini will be happy: three out of four shoot.Samiles! Very good girls" . "The most beautiful news of yesterday comes from the Mediterranean Games, not from Pontida, Italy is not afraid: #PrimeLeItaliane" commented Matteo Renzi on his social profiles. Meanwhile, the athletes, who became more popular for an extra-sporting controversy than for the gold medal with a time of 3 "03" 54, see their photos bouncing on social media. [19659002 Two of them were born in Italy, one in Africa and one in the Caribbean .24-year-old Raphaela Lukudo was born in Aversa (Caserta) of a family originally from Sudan. , but long settled in Italy Maria Benedicta Chigbolu, 29, born in Rome, is the second of six children (three brothers and three sisters) of a religious teacher, Paola, and an international consultant Nigerian, Augustin Libania Grenot, was born in Santiago de Cuba of a unionist father and a journalist mother.After the successes with the shirt of the Cuban national team, she married an Italian in 2006, taking his nationality in 2008. Ayomide Folorunso, 22, was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria [194] 59005] in a family from the Southwest Country, but since 2004 was established with relatives in Fidenza. At the age of 18, she took Italian nationality and in June 2015 she was registered at Fiamme Oro.