Reggio Calabria, shooting at the center-right candidate secretariat Cannizzaro

Intimidation in Reggio Calabria against the Forza Italia deputy Francesco Cannizzaro, candidate of the Center-right to the Chamber in the Reggio-Locri single-member constituency in the 2022 political elections on 25 September. Some gunshots were fired at around 9 pm against the window of his secretariat while a political meeting was in progress in which Cannizzaro himself was participating. On the spot, not far from Palazzo Campanella, the seat of the regional council, the police intervened and are now investigating to reconstruct the incident. “Solidarity with the friend and deputy of Forza Italia Francesco Cannizzaro and his collaborators for the unworthy intimidation suffered this evening in Reggio Calabria. What happened is very serious and repugnant. Ours is a Region of respectable people, which disgusts the ‘Ndrangheta, the mafia and organized crime, and which wants to isolate the violent and the bad apples. The regional council strongly condemns this episode and asks the investigators to shed full light. That these criminals are identified and brought to justice as soon as possible “, the words in a note Roberto Occhiuto, president of the Calabria Region. “My solidarity with Francesco Cannizzaro, the militants and citizens of Reggio, with the certainty that no one will be frightened by violent and criminal”, said the leader of the League Matteo Salvini.