"Pizza Corona" angered Italians

Cairo – Gololy

The French TV channel "Canal Plus" strongly apologized to Italy after a humorous advert ridiculed "pizza corona" within the nation that’s well-known for cooking and appetizing for pizza in the entire world.

The brief video broadcast by the channel "Canal Plus" had claimed that it was selling "Corona Pizza … the brand new Italian pizza that may unfold all through the world."

With Italy dealing with the worst outbreak of Corona in Europe and recording 52 deaths, Italian International Minister Luigi de Mayo discovered no humor within the announcement.

"De Mayo" wrote on his private web page on the social networking website "Fb" saying: I can perceive the ridicule, I can perceive something however the irony of the Italians on this manner, in mild of the emergency state of affairs we face because of the Corona virus, it’s a signal of disrespect for Launch. ”

The Italian international minister indicated that the case had been reported to the Italian embassy in Paris.

The French channel mentioned in an announcement: "Canal Plus expresses its apology to our Italian buddies" and acknowledged that the video got here "with a really unhealthy style, particularly within the present context" … indicating that it’ll ship a letter of apology to the Italian ambassador to Paris.