FILE PHOTO: Italian President Sergio Mattarella speaks during a meeting with family members of Morandi bridge collapse victims, in Rome, Italy, August 3, 2020. Presidential Press Office/Paolo Giandott/Handout via REUTERS
ROME (Reuters) - Italian President Sergio Mattarella, taking aim at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for suggesting his country was more freedom loving than others, said on Thursday that Italy loved freedom, but was also serious.
Johnson told parliament in London on Tuesday that Britain had a worse coronavirus infection rate than nations like Italy and Germany because it was a "freedom-loving country" which therefore resisted social restrictions to curb the disease.
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