Likewise, in Italy, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini blamed the shooting on “certain violent tones of the left.”
“It happened in the USA, it also happened in Italy against Berlusconi,” he said, referring to an assault on former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in 2009 that left him bloodied.
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who last week compared the left-wing New Popular Front alliance to the Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington in 2021, said the attempted assassination was “a warning for all of us,” adding that “France is not safe from this violence.”
Elsewhere, the shooting was turned into a rallying cry. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić described Trump’s survival as a “miracle” and called for “the libertarian forces of the world to rise up.”
“This is all the madness of the demonization that they carry out every day in which there is only one acceptable truth and no one has the right to a different opinion,” he told reporters Sunday.
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said the shooting was “an expression of permitted and encouraged hatred” and warned that Vučić’s life was also at risk.
Belgian far-right leader Tom Van Grieken accused the media of “dehumanizing” and “demonizing” Trump, and seemed to draw a parallel between Trump and murdered far-right Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn.
Eva Hartog, Elena Giordano, Ketrin Jochecová and Victor Goury-Laffont contributed reporting.
