"Kill the n**ger" was scrawled
on the exterior wall of a family who have adopted an African man
at Melegnano near Milan earlier this week.
The phrase was accompanied by a swastika.
The family, who have hosted the 22-year-old Senegalese for
two years, said this was not the first incident of the kind.
"What is happening in so many cases today in Italy is also
amplified by politicians like (Interior Minister and
anti-migrant League leader Matteo) Salvini," said the mother of
Bakary Dandio, Angela Bedoni, who adopted him with her husband
Paolo Pozzi.
"We must build bridges, not close ports," she said referring
to Salvini's closing Italian ports to NGO migrant rescue ships.
She also said Salvini's recent migrants and security decree
"is putting many people into difficulties today. And it is a
question of culture too. It is important to understand what
happened in Italy before 1945 and today".
Salvini replied by saying "I respect the pain of a mother, I
embrace her son and I condemn all forms of racism.
"And the lady should respect the demand for security and
legality that is coming from Italians, that I make concrete as a
minister.
"Blocking migrant smugglers and their accomplices, installing
CCTV cameras and expelling criminals is simply justice, it isn't
racism".
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