Vasco Rossi against Matthew Salvini: the back and forth between the rocker and the deputy prime minister continues.
The debate around the new Highway Code, strongly supported by the deputy prime minister Matthew Salviniwas sparked by statements published on social media in recent days by Vasco Rossi.
In a video the artist harshly criticized the rule which provides for arrest and withdrawal of the license even in the case of taking cannabis or other psychotropic substances days before driving, without the driver's impaired state being demonstrated.
These were the words of the rocker from Zocca:
“So guys, Minister Salvini, Minister Matteo Salvini, on this December 14th, from tomorrow evening, next weekend, has made sure for your good that if you have smoked a joint even a week before and you are stopped you can be arrested immediately and your driving license is revoked for three years. This is Minister Salvini, he decided it for your good, of course,”
The response did not take long Salviniwho defended the provisions of the new Highway Code, underlining its preventive objective:
“I love Vasco Rossi as a singer. All types of drugs are bad for you. I would like him not to discuss it with me, but with the relatives of someone who died because he was involved in a road accident involving someone who was driving under the influence of drugs. There's no laughing matter when it comes to alcohol and drugs.
I hope to go to many more Vasco concerts, but it is a Highway Code whose sole objective is to save lives.”
Vasco Rossi's rejoinder to Salvini
Vasco, who usually doesn't get into controversies, this time chooses to continue expressing his free thoughts with a rejoinder:
“Dear Salvini, I don't have to deal with anyone other than you… I don't write the laws. I would like you to compare yourself with all those who, without a driving licence, will lose their jobs and will no longer be able to go to work (even the driving licence, it's not just for going around at night having fun.)
I too am close (like everyone else) to the relatives of the victims of road accidents caused by drunk or drugged drivers. But Salvini's new law does not prevent this. It doesn't save any lives! It punishes and arrests anyone who is perfectly lucid behind the wheel and may have consumed cannabis or even passive smoking even in the days before driving.
This is not reducing road accidents, but it is spreading propaganda on people's skin and persecuting a minority that cannot defend itself. Pull yourself together please, and change this damn law.”
Vasco adds the Hashtag to everything “Strong with the weak, weak with the strong.”
At this point yet another reply to the rocker, this time from Alfredo Antoniozzideputy group leader of Brothers of Italy in the Chamber, which criticized the positions of Vasco without ever touching on the topic, also raised by celebrities such as Fedez And Naike Rivelliof the use of Cannabis for therapeutic purposes:
“We all love Vasco Rossi and we certainly don't pretend that he cannot express his dissenting ideas. But he's wrong about cannabis while driving. He is wrong when he criticizes Salvini for the risks faced by those who take cannabis while driving. Because cannabis is not candy and it impairs mental abilities. This is not an ethical choice because otherwise we would also have to be lenient towards those who drink alcohol and drive. Vasco Rossi has the wisdom to understand that a joint is not harmless and, like alcohol, can cause road accidents where innocent people die.”
Also Roberto Old menguest on The 7he stated:
“This code does not protect in any way those who go on the street, it is not a protection decree, it is a highly political decree now all decrees are electoral and political. This thing is bullshit… a boy who smokes three weeks before in Holland, even a little, is caught in Italy and reduced… a crash, because they take everything away from him, it seems to me that the thing isn't working, he's driving healthily, he's fine, he has all the rights to drive because he is not drunk, he is not high… why take him when he is innocent…“
In short, the debate and verbal clash on the new Highway Code continues between those who defend the new rules as a preventive measure and those, like Vasco Rossi, who criticize the approach, defining it as repressive and aimed at targeting vulnerable sections of the population.
