Former Chief of Police Franco Gabrielli, interviewed on La 7, criticised the use of the term even in legislation: “It’s as if, back in the 1970s, we’d introduced anti-‘terroni’ laws. It means ‘Moroccan mosquito’.” But the president of the Accademia della Crusca, D’Achille, puts the brakes on: “The etymology is not actually certain, but there is no doubt that it is a word with negative connotations.”