Merano, the Neosindaca Zeller Takes Off the Tricolor Band and Wears only the Tyrolean Medallion: Â It Is the Official Badge in South Tyrol Â

The new mayor of Merano stripes off the traditional sash in the country colours. The outcry is great.

Katharina Zeller is part of a South Tyrolean autonomous party and the gesture was seen as disrespectful

The gesture of Katharina Zeller, who threw the band on a chair to preserve only the city medallion, makes explicit in its brutality a situation that many know but few are willing to speak openly about

Daughter of art and exponent of the Svp, Zeller passed to the Dario Dal Medico ballottaggio. The centerright: "Indegna del rulo" (Indefatigation of the role) Replica: "Gesto rude of the outgoing mayor"

It is polemic in South Tyrol because of the gesture of the newly elected mayor of Merano, Katharina Zeller is an exponent of native German speakers of the Südtiroler Volkspartei who during the settlement in the City Hall immediately removed the tricolor band and then put it on the table. In the scene, immortalized by the cameras, it is felt Zeller to ask his predecessor Dario Dal Medico that he gives her the band: "Are you sure that I have to?,"…

The provincial council member Bianchi: 'Grave act against all Italians'. The former Spanish mayor: 'Gesto gravee ma escudo il vilipendio' (ANSA)