Overview
- A video posted on X shows Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña reacting to a Mexican citizen recording him outside the upscale Rinascente store in Rome, with the phone visibly struck and the camera shaking.
- The videomaker, Roberto Quijano of Baja California, alleges the senator tried to seize his phone and that a female companion attempted to kick him.
- Fernández Noroña publicly denied any aggression, identified Quijano as a PAN supporter, used labels including “fascist, racist and classist,” and claimed he warned the man to avoid being run over.
- In the recording, the senator responds to criticism over his support for Nicolás Maduro by saying in Spanish, “Of course, I call for Maduro’s release.”
- In a later video address, Fernández Noroña described the episode as part of “permanent harassment,” while reports reviewed indicate no intervention by Italian authorities and no formal complaint from Quijano.