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"I made a mistake, but there are people who behave even worse."
Antonio Piazza captured on CCTV taking revenge after being fined for repeatedly leaving his car in a disabled parking spot
Local politician
Anonio Piazza had been parking in the disabled spot for three years
before finally being fined €80 and forced to move. Photograph: Sean
Dempsey/PA
Antonio Piazza, a member of Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, parked his car in the spot outside his office in Lecco for three years and was incensed when police officers finally fined him €80 (£64) and made him move his car to make space for disabled driver Giuseppe Scuderi to park his Renault.
Half an hour later, after the police had left, Piazza returned with a knife and slashed Scuderi's two front tyres, forgetting he was being filmed by CCTV, before later repenting and offering to fix them.
The episode caps a series of scandals at local government level in Italy, stretching from Piedmont to Sicily, which have caused public faith in municipal and regional politicians to plummet – notably in the Lazio region, where the governor has resigned and a senior official in Berlusconi's party has been arrested over embezzlement allegations.
Piazza at first tried to appeal against his parking fine, claiming he had given a lift to a disabled person, but has now grudgingly resigned from his job running a regional housing agency under pressure from his party, claiming: "I made a mistake, but there are people who behave even worse."
I don't know what it is about this that really sticks in my craw, the arrogance, the cheek, the ethos. He's like one of those damn Mussolini black shirts from the thirties.
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