Professor Fabrizio Pregliasco recently found himself with a stone on stage. It happened in Barletta. And the launch came as he was announcing the resurgence of Covid-19. To tell the truth, I didn't realize it right away because I was speaking and there were two spotlights in front of me that were blinding me: I couldn't see the audience. I just heard a dull noise on stage. The journalist next to me, Manila Gorio, noticed the stone. He immediately stopped the debate, asking those responsible to come forward, emphasizing the seriousness of the act and apologizing,” he explains today in an interview with Corriere della Sera. Then he wanted to continue: “I finished explaining in a calm tone the coexistence with Covid, without emphasis and without any alarmism.”
The stone
Pregliasco explains that “the stone came close, I don't know if they really wanted to hit me and they aimed badly. We were on the stage of the amphitheater, placed at the bottom, while the audience was sitting on the steps and the stone was thrown from above. It was an unpleasant episode, which I really found a bit exaggerated.” In March 2022, he was also shot at university: “It was accompanied by a threatening letter. They accused me of recommending a neurotoxic vaccine to children and promised to shoot me and my children in the stomach and legs in order to make me suffer.” And he explains that his life has changed: “Often, people who recognize me ask me for a selfie. Other times, but it is a minority, they insult me, accusing me of having ruined Italy. To avoid anti-vax attacks, I no longer take the subway where I would often be recognized.”
Social networks
He also has some problems with anti-vaxxers on social media: “For this last case they wrote to me 'too bad the stone didn't hit you'. To lighten the drama, we and our friends draw up a ranking of the most absurd comments. At number one is 'you're an acorn', closely followed by 'go crush the curls with your buttocks'. Almost comical expressions, except that there is so much hatred behind them.” It all depends on one fact: “They accuse me of having locked them in the house during the pandemic.” But Pregliasco never played a decision-making role during the emergency.
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