Alcuni con una serie di immagini animate con delle scimmie, altri con insulti in inglese a stampo razzista. Mike Maignan è stato bersagliato dai tifosi del Milan dopo l’espulsione di giovedì sera, nella sfida contro il Bournemouth persa per 3-0 in Europa League, per uno schiaffo in faccia a palla ferma a un avversario. “Torna in Africa con la barca con cui sei arrivato“, “Animale nero”, si legge in alcuni commenti molto pesanti sotto i vari post social. Frasi che il Milan ha condannato, pubblicato una nota ufficiale a riguardo. “A seguito della partita di ieri contro il Bournemouth, Mike Maignan è stato bersaglio di gravi e inaccettabili insulti razzisti sui social media. Il Milan condanna con fermezza ogni forma di razzismo e discriminazione, comportamenti inaccettabili che non trovano spazio né dentro né fuori dal campo”. È quanto si legge in un comunicato della società rossonera.

“Il club esprime la propria piena solidarietà e il proprio sostegno a Mike e ribadisce il suo costante impegno nella promozione dei valori del rispetto, dell’inclusione e dell’uguaglianza. Questi sono i valori del Milan. Infine, dobbiamo restare uniti, come milanisti e come movimento calcistico italiano. L’unico modo per riportare il calcio italiano dove merita di stare è fare fronte comune e dare il meglio di noi stessi, sia individualmente che collettivamente. Vogliamo tutti vincere, ma dobbiamo farlo nel modo giusto, con dignità, rispetto reciproco e classe“, ha aggiunto il club rossonero. Tutto arriva dopo la brutta sconfitta per 3-0 dei rossoneri in Europa League sul campo del Bournemouth. Al minuto 28, su azione da calcio d’angolo, il portiere rossonero ha messo le mani in faccia ad Adams buttandolo giù. Immediato l’intervento dell’arbitro Vassilis Fotias che ha espulso il numero uno francese.

In porta è entrato Torriani, che ha preso il posto di Hutchinson. Maignan si è successivamente scusato sui social: “Il mio gesto non era intenzionale. Come tutti i portieri e come in ogni partita, volevo creare dello spazio nella mia zona in area. Sfortunatamente, questo ha portate a dare una cattiva immagine, in particolare ai più giovani. Il club, lo staff e i miei compagni sanno che tipo di persona e che tipo di capitano io sia. Conoscono le mie intenzioni e mollare non ne fa mai parte. Per il resto, siamo abituati alle interpretazioni date da alcune persone e da certi media”. Scuse che non hanno evitato i tantissimi insulti social ricevuti dal portiere francese, capitano del Milan, con la maggior parte appunto a stampo razzista.

L'articolo “Torna in Africa con la barca con cui sei arrivato”, “Scimmia”: insulti choc a Maignan. Il Milan: “Tutti vogliamo vincere, ma con rispetto” proviene da Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Milan is the city where singer Dua Lipa is considering moving to but also where many of the local residents are being forced to leave. It is among the places that host the most millionaires in the world, who move into new skyscrapers designed by prominent architects. They are drawn by the flat tax offered in Italy since 2017, a single payment of €300,000 (it convinced Cristiano Ronaldo to leave Real Madrid for Juventus in 2018). It is the so‑called Milan Model — a city of luxury, culture, fashion and investment banks, ideal for living, except that soaring housing prices have made living impossible: buying a home costs 57% more than a decade ago, and renting is 70% more expensive than in 2018, according to online real estate data.

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Italy’s response to a weekend of street violence has moved from emergency policing to tougher criminal law, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni seeking to reassert control after unrest in Milan and other northern cities

The government approved measures on Tuesday creating an offence of violent participation in demonstrations, extending preventive detention powers to teenagers aged 14–17 and making parents financially liable for damage caused by their children. The package also provides for 500 soldiers to support security operations in Milan through December.

The crackdown presents a defining challenge for a prime minister whose political identity rests heavily on law and order: demonstrating that stronger powers can prevent another eruption while addressing the conditions feeding public anger.

Milan’s damaged shopping streets have become the most visible symbol of that challenge. Weekend violence brought looting, fires and confrontations with police, exposing businesses and residents to disorder in Italy’s financial capital.

As EU Today reported in its earlier coverage of the unrest, police brought 271 people to headquarters following Sunday’s disturbances, including 220 minors. Thirty-two were formally arrested, a detail that matters when assessing the scale of alleged criminal involvement.

The prominence of teenagers has shaped the government’s response. According to the Associated Press, the decree makes prosecuting minors over 14 easier and includes plans to expand juvenile detention capacity and judicial resources. Parliament must convert the decree into law within 60 days.

For supporters, the argument is straightforward: shopkeepers should not have to absorb the cost of destruction, and officers need effective tools against groups exploiting demonstrations to commit offences.

Yet preventive detention raises a different question from punishment after conviction. Its credibility depends on clear evidence, consistent safeguards and meaningful scrutiny, particularly when those affected are children.

Making the distinction will help determine whether the package strengthens public confidence or deepens distrust among young people already alienated from political institutions.

The wider European debate offers a warning. In its earlier editorial, EU Global examined the tension between public-order legislation and the right to protest, arguing that governments risk restricting legitimate dissent when security powers expand too broadly. That commentary predates the Milan disturbances but addresses the central democratic question now confronting Italy.

Peaceful assembly and criminal violence require different responses. Protecting the former gives authorities greater legitimacy when confronting the latter; treating an entire demonstration as suspect risks weakening that distinction.

Meloni also faces a political vulnerability that additional arrests cannot automatically resolve. The Financial Times reported that the unrest involved teenagers mobilised through social media, many without political affiliations, against a background of economic stagnation and expensive living conditions.

Those circumstances complicate any attempt to explain the disorder through a single organisation, ideology or grievance. Online mobilisation can accelerate confrontation without producing leaders capable of negotiating an end to it.

For the government, this makes prevention as important as punishment. Better intelligence, timely deployment and coordination between national and municipal authorities will influence whether stronger legislation produces safer streets.

The same applies to the military presence. Soldiers can provide visible reassurance, but the political test will be whether residents and businesses experience sustained security once the immediate emergency passes.

Italy faces two connected tasks.

Establishing individual responsibility for destruction and restoring confidence that lawful political participation can deliver results will be the priorities if public respect for the law is to be maintained.

Meloni’s new measures offer a forceful immediate answer to the first. Their lasting success will depend on whether the government can make progress on the second, before another weekend of anger becomes another emergency requiring still tougher powers.

Europe is warming more than twice as fast as the global average—a terrifying statistic made all too apparent this summer as heat wave followed heat wave. European cities were never designed for these temperatures, and public health, infrastructure, and tourism are all under strain. Eric Klinenberg arrives in Milan just as “Europe’s third heat wave of the summer entered its fiercest stretch” and sweats his way across the continent to see how trees, shade, water, and other measures are being deployed to adapt urban centers. But with this crisis set to deepen can these experiments really keep pace?

Of all the problems that heat poses for Barcelona, losing some of the hundred and sixty thousand tourists who typically visit each day ranks low on the priority lists of most officials and residents. Some locals have staged protests, chanting “Tourists go home” while targeting visitors with water guns. But tourism employs more than a hundred and sixty thousand people in Barcelona and accounts for around thirteen per cent of its economic output, which explains why, despite concerns that the city gets too many visitors, more than seventy per cent of residents consider tourism beneficial. At midday, when I arrived on La Rambla, the city’s most heavily visited and photographed corridor, the street had little shade and surprisingly few people. At La Boqueria market, normally jam-packed at lunchtime, I found my way to a famously busy bar counter and took one of several open seats.