Bari, the girl in the middle finger photo of Salvini under attack on social media: she closed the accounts

An Instagram story, with a sequence of seven photos that show some insults received on social media and begs you to stop, aimed at users who have attacked it. The screenshot, the snapshot of the screen of the mobile phone, in which appears the block of the official page of Matteo Salvini towards his profile. And a post in which the Northern League senator is tagged with a message: "I sue you".It is what remained of the activity on the internet of the last 24 hours of Erika Labbe. It is the name with which he appears, or rather he appeared before turning off his social profiles, the 19 year old girl from Conversano, who became famous in spite of herself for the photograph published on the afternoon of December 18th on Facebook and Instagram, in which she portrays her in the foreground with middle finger and beside Matteo Salvini asleep on the seat of an airplane.
A photo accompanied by hearts, which in a few hours became viral, sparking irony, appreciation and an avalanche of insults. The senator of the Northern League was the one sharing and feeding the pillory on the social networks Roberta Ferrero, who published the shot of the girl on his Facebook profile, accompanying him with these words: "Here is the brave of the day. He does the medium to Matteo Salvini, while he sleeps. Then they go to the sardine demonstrations to say that in Italy 'is a language of hate ".Shortly afterwards it was the page of the former Interior Minister to take up the post of the girl by publishing her face in clear along with the contacts of the Insangram profile with the comment: "How nice to travel in the company of polite little people! And then maybe they go to the streets to combat hatred, violence and rudeness ".

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Girl post picture with middle finger to Salvini who sleeps on the plane. He: "Personcine polite"

The insults of the supporters of the Northern League secretary have thus multiplied and have been delivered directly to the girl, forced first to respond and to publish the story on Instagram, then to threaten complaints and, finally, to deactivate her social profiles.

In the meantime, Savini has continued to ironize, with a photo and post that portrayed him about to leave by train and the wish to find travelers next to him different from the 19 year old from Puglia. "If he were my son – he then declared on TV as guest of The air that pulls, on La7 – to do something like that, two slaps go home, nobody removes them, then he can call the blue phone, Unicef ​​or the emergency room, if my son does something like that I explain to him that in the world behaves differently ".

But of the Apulian girl's closeness to the Sardine movement, as the Northern League chief and her supporters had supposed, there is no trace. Quite the contrary. In the last few hours a sort of letter has been circulated, also taken up by Ludovico Guenzi, leader of the rock group The social state, which would belong to the 19 year old.

The girl would deny being part of the movement devised by Mattia Santori, he would declare himself neither right nor left, victim of the cyber-bullying of Salvini's supporters and, finally, he would apologize for the incident. The singer reports that a friend of the 19-year-old sent it to him, so he decided to share it as he did with the offending photo, accompanied by the message: "A laugh will bury you".

The text reads: "Hi everyone, I am Erika Labbe, I am 19 years old and amazed, I am not a sardine. I thank the aforementioned page and Matteo Salvini for exposing my name everywhere, making me arrive in direct heavy insults, death threats, various intimidations and pornographic material. I shared this photo with my friends to highlight the incredible coincidence of taking a low-cost flight and finding ourselves seated together with Salvini. I sent the photo privately and it had nothing to do with Salvini (who, if we want to say it all, is also surrounded by various little hearts.) I am not of the left and I am not of the right. I will have the opportunity to better understand every issue related to it.I did not expect – he continues – a media exposure of this magnitude and frankly I am not the least bit interested in becoming 'famous' for something I do with all other intentions. I'm sorry if people have been called into question with this photo, none of it was my intention. "

The 19-year-old Pugliese, in concluding, would not hide her bitterness: "A small note, however, goes to a question that is more dear to me: Cyberbullying exists and today I have been its victim. Words can hurt more than words believe – it is written – and this, unfortunately, does not seem to be a shared opinion. I am so sorry ".