Alessandro Barattoni's posters defaced

Ravenna, 25 May 2025 – A rude awakening on Election Sunday for those who happened to be passing through Ravenna 's Via dei Poggi, where electoral posters of centre-left candidate Alessandro Barattoni were defaced, presumably during the night, and vandals even wished him dead, covering his face with the words 'you must die' and an insult.

An act of absolute vulgarity and pettiness, which spoils an electoral campaign in which all the candidates had instead maintained a tone of maximum respect towards one another.

Preparing the polling stations for the municipal elections in Ravenna

Events of this kind are not rare in election campaigns, but they are surprising in Ravenna, where all the mayoral candidates in the field have never resorted to verbal violence towards each other.