Stefano Bandicci, Italian sniper | poster

Terni mayor Stefano Bandicci probably thinks he’s a smart person and considers his social profiles a good way to get a few laughs. Therefore, he did not find anything wrong with posting a picture of two barefoot gentlemen at the fountain in the middle of Piazza Tacito, and commented on it as follows: “In any case, I want to put a sniper traffic cop on the building in the upper right corner, in their opinion they will go after the third shot.”

Then, shortly after, the same photo and a new caption: “I hope no one will be shocked if I ask them to be fined. I do not want to face the same political Egyptians as last time. No slaps.” The sucking he refers to is the one that followed the sensational video in which the mayor attacked the municipal press officer. However, after the third publication of the photo and the third comment: “For the weak-minded, it is not racism on skin color and (sic) only racism For stupidity (sic.) Anyone who disagrees can go and drink water.

Visible controversy on social mediaAmid the indignation of many and the now frequent question about how this character managed to become mayor of such an important city as Terni. But the real question is another: How did the center-right and center-left lose the last municipal elections against such competition. The administrative disasters of the last decade and the industrial decline of the city of Terni are explainable only to a certain extent.

In any case, Bandicci finally closed his speech with a video of clarifications, between laughter and winks: «I want to apologize to the sniper traffic cop, because obviously if you fire three shots and don’t catch two people. The first two shots, you can’t be a sniper. So I apologize to all the snipers in Italy, and I am honored to be a part of it ».

This detail She is an addition to the already impressive résumé of Bandici: fisherman, worker, para folgore, president of Ternana, president of Unicusano, financier of right-wing election campaigns and now secretary of Alternativa Popolare, the party founded by Angelino Alfano after the end of the NCD. In this capacity the mayor of the sniper announced, just yesterday, that his party has a name for next year’s municipal elections in Perugia: former Griffo captain Davide Baiocco, protagonist of some good leagues in Serie A at the time by Gucci.