(refiling with different photo)(ANSA) - Rome, September 2 - Amatrice Mayor Sergio Pirozzi on Friday blasted what he called the "unpleasant and embarrassing satire" by French weekly Charlie Hebdo on last week's deadly earthquake in central Italy.

"I'm sure it doesn't correspond to the real sentiment of the French people," he said. "Irony is always welcome, but you can't satirize disasters and the dead. We will show the Italian people are a great people, during the emergency as during the reconstruction". The Friday issue of the French satirical newsweekly dedicated a cartoon to last week's powerful and deadly earthquake in central Italy. The drawing titled 'Earthquake, Italian-style' depicts bloodied victims buried under layers of pasta. "Approximately 300 dead in an earthquake in Italy," the cartoon says. "It is still unknown whether it shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Great in Arabic)". The cover features a vignette on the burkini controversy raging in France.

