“In France as in Italy, the left has stopped providing answers” – Libération

The Italian author of “Gomorrah” sees in the result of the National Rally on June 30 the confirmation that the extreme right is now the driving political force in France and in Europe.

He has been one of the bêtes noires of the far right in Italy for years. Prosecuted by Giorgia Meloni, the writer Roberto Saviano was sentenced to a suspended fine of 1,000 euros in October 2023 for defamation. Following a new shipwreck of migrants in the Mediterranean in 2020 and the death of a six-month-old baby, the author of Gomorrah had treated of “bastards” the head of Fratelli d’Italia and the head of the Lega, Matteo Salvini. Both are in favour of establishing a naval blockade against “the migratory invasion”, They accused the aid workers of organizing «sea taxis» and being accomplices of human traffickers. For ReleaseRoberto Saviano reacts to the results of the first round of legislative elections in France.

You have stated in recent years that the “Italy’s present will be France’s future”with a strong extreme right in the instances of power. The day after the first round of these legislative elections in France, are we now, in France, in this presen