Kate Langbroek's 'aggressive' brush with the law during coronavirus lockdown

Her husband is being sued by the City of Bologna for flouting lockdown rules and now Kate Langbroek has revealed her own run-in with the law in Italy.

The Hiit network presenter, her husband Peter and their four children, moved from Melbourne to Bologna in Italy at the beginning of 2019.

As the coronavirus sweeps through the country, the family have been documenting how life in lockdown looks from Europe.

Speaking to hosts Dave Hughes and Ed Kavalee on FOX FM, Kate said she had a bit of a brush with the law on Good Friday, when she went shopping to get her children some Easter eggs.

Kate and her husband were stopped by police, who told them they weren’t supposed to be outside their home together.

“Italians have that knack. They can look at us and know we are not Italian,” she started.

“I was so annoyed. I hate the one-size-fits-all rule. I said, ‘I’ve got four children at home, that’s a lot of food, that’s a lot of carrying on my own’.

“They were a bit surprised by how aggressive I was.

“They respect that attitude because it’s the attitude of an Italian woman. They’re quite forthright.

“That’s my new strategy. I’m going to be aggressive.”

At the beginning of the month, Kate detailed how her husband got stopped on the street while he was out enjoying a morning bike ride.

“Initially you were allowed to go out to exercise, which I would never do,” Kate joked when she called in to Triple M Sydney’s Moonman in the Morning.

“Peter, my husband, actually got stopped by the police three weeks ago at like seven o'clock in the morning on a Sunday and they changed the rules the night before,” she continued.

“It was pretty intense, he’s being sued by the City of Bologna and they said to him: ‘have you got a lawyer’ and he was like ‘wow this is not just like a fine’.”

Kate said she’s probably left the house about five times in the past month and has been homeschooling her kids for six weeks now.

“I’m far less filled with maternal rage than I have been before. it’s like the stages of grief you move into acceptance and then you move into exhaustion. But there’s no point in resisting because this is just the way it is,” she said.

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