STUMPING ITALIAN POLITICIAN PELTED WITH TOMATOES NEAR NAPLES

League leader Matteo Salvini was booed and pelted with tomatoes as he addressed an election rally in the town of Torre del Greco, near Naples, on Friday, September 11, 2020, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

"Those who throw tomatoes are not protesting, they are uncivilized," said Salvini, who was in the town as part of a tour ahead of elections in seven Italian regions this month, including Campania.

Earlier this week a young woman from Congo pushed and shoved the anti-immigrant Salvini, ripping his shirt and breaking off the rosary around his neck as he arrived for an election rally at Pontassieve near Florence.

The incident happened on the same day that three accountants linked to League were arrested in a fraud case, with Salvini claiming nothing will come out of the probe. The case involves the acquisition of a property for the Lombardia Film Commission at an allegedly inflated price. A Milan preliminary investigations judge said in the arrest warrants that the suspects had high ranking roles in several companies and public bodies. Two of the accountants, Alberto Di Rubba and Andrea Manzoni, have respectively been the administrative director and the auditor for the League parliamentary party since 2018, ANSA reported.

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