(ANSA) - MILAN, OCT 19 - A 21-year-old Milanese student and
anarchist has been placed under investigation for spraying paint
on a Milan statue of late Italian journalism doyen Indro
Montanelli in a protest against his buying a teenage Eritrean
wife during Italy's Abyssinian war in the 1930s.
The student was identified by his initials, A.
He is believed to have defaced the statue in a Black Lives
Matter protest.
Montanelli, who died in 2001 aged 92, feted as an Italian
journalism great, never apologised for buying the 12-year-old
girl, whom he frequently recalled as 'a small docile animal",
when he was a Fascist soldier in the 1935-37 Second
Italo-Ethiopian War.
Police found in the student's flat a credit card with which the
paint canisters used in the June 13-14 attack on the statue were
bought.
The man may be charged with defacing public property. (ANSA).
Student probed for spraying paint on Montanelli statue
Journalism doyen bought Eritrean wife, 12, as a Fascist soldier