The scene has been made viral: a tavern brawl where they almost fly up to the chairs and that even the security forces have a hard time dissolving. It’s just that the stage is not, even if it looks like it, a bar. Nor the man who goes with everything against another one typhoid rabid. But a plenary session of the Terni town hall, a city in the heart of Italy, and our hooliganis his controversial newly released mayor, Stefano Bandecchi. That, by reaching Berlusconi or Salvini, he is going to leave them behind; at least in terms of character.

“More bar fights than political debates”

came from a tense discussion —another one— with the opposition, whose spokesman he had threatened to laugh at being called “ridiculous” or “of shame“. “Either you stop laughing or I leave you without teeth in the mouth!”, he snapped before launching for him. Previously, he had not hesitated to call “moron” to the municipal press officer. And the local media comment that he “is obviously more used to bar fights than to debates”.

The assault has arrived, in the form of a complaint, to the Government Delegation. He’s been in office for three months — he’s been elected as the leader of a civic coalition! — and he’s racked up quite a few clashes and controversies. One of the most absurd, by a couple of people who washed their feet in a fountain in a square. She came to threaten them with a sniper. “I set them on fire… or I slap them twice… I swear I’ll do everything possible to ruin their lives,” he proclaimed —with a disturbing smile— from their social networks. And he has only apologized for calling agents “snipers” who would miss, she says, the shot.

“Beautiful as life, black as death”

self named “Christian Democrat with a sword”, ex-military with fame of bully (member of the elite Parachute Brigade folgore), we called him before typhoid —hooligan— for something: president from a team of soccer local, several times measured with fists with rival fans. Much more serious, too, is the investigation that was opened for the alleged diversion of up to 20 million euros from the university who also presides, that of Nicolás de Cusa —eminently on-line— to diffuse real estate balls.

One of his slogans, of which he has even worn t-shirts, is: “beautiful as life, black as death”. Politician involved in polemics, he charges for the rightbusinessman, soccer fan,… it is not surprising that the Italian media —in a more than obvious game with the initials of both— see in Stefan B.andecchi a lopsided version of Silvio B.erlusconi