Published September 06,2023
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The Spanish basketball membership Casademont Zaragoza has incurred diplomatic hassle from Italy for promoting a restaurant chain with the phrase Mafia in its identify.
The Italian ambassador in Madrid, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi, wrote to the primary division membership accusing it of “trivializing” a prison group.
The basketball gamers from Spain’s north-east have a sponsorship contract with a sequence whose identify interprets as “The Mafia sits down at the table” since this yr.
In a letter to the president of the affiliation, Reynaldo Benito, the ambassador referred to the widespread combat inside the EU towards organized crime. The hyperlink between the Mafia and social gatherings trivialized their “illegal and reprehensible activities,” the ambassador mentioned.
The diplomat wrote: “The picture of the Mafia on the desk additionally damages the tradition of Mediterranean meals that Spain and Italy share and that makes consuming an essential second of social trade and private growth.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
