MEP expelled for wearing a muzzle and calling Von der Leyen a “murderer”

The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsolahas today expelled from the institution’s hemicycle the Romanian far-right MEP Diana Șoșoacă who He interrupted the session with shouts from his seat with a muzzle ona religious image and a large garbage bag while accusing the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyenof “kill people“.

MEP Diana Șoșoacă, known anti-vaccine activist from the Romanian AUR partyhad already put on a muzzle and shouted from his seat on several occasions before Metsola, who warned him that it was the third time he had disrupted the normal course of the session, I would urge him to leave the plenary session.

“You killed people and I have the right to speak“, shouted the MEP, who resisted for several minutes to almost a dozen ushers who They tried to escort her out of the chamber.

Șoșoacă accuses von der Leyen of deaths recorded during COVID-19 and? She attributes it to vaccineswhich is why, she explained, she was carrying a large black plastic bag that she says is used in her country to store corpses and thus symbolize those who have died from the pandemic.

The European News Diary Political reported on Wednesday that Șoșoacă, already known for being disruptive in the Romanian Parliament, had assured that as soon as she could she would bring a priest to consecrate her offices because, as in her national Parliament, “Here the demons gather“.

After being expelled from the chamber, the MEP He went to the door to a group of journalists And, with the same religious image and interpretation headphones still on, he protested that there is only one candidate for the presidency of the European Commission and said that “all Romanians say clearly that they do not want Ursula because she is a criminal.”

“Polarization is at its highest level since the Cold War“I will say it bluntly: we will always defend freedom, but it is not the one who shouts the loudest and the one who shows the least respect who has the most power. It is respect for the rule of law, respect that unites us,” said Von der Leyen in her first reply.