Rome prof cleared of calling farm minister 'neo-Hitlerite'

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 15 - A Rome university professor was cleared Wednesday of calling Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida a "neo-Hitlerite" after he sued her for the term she used.
    A judge in Rome declared that there was no need to proceed against Donatella Di Cesare, professor of philosophy at the Sapienza University in Rome, who was accused of defamation by the minister, who is Premier Giorgia Meloni's brother in law.
    For the judge, "the fact does not constitute a crime".
    During a television broadcast, commenting on Lollobrigida's words on the 'ethnic replacement' of native Italians mainly by Muslim migrants, she had said that "the minister's words cannot be taken for a slip of the tongue because he spoke as a Gauleiter, as a neo-Hitlerite (local) governor".
    Di Cesare, 68, has also been in hot water after voicing solidarity with a Rd Brigades terrorist who helped kidnap slain Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1978, after she died in March, calling her a "comrade" and saying "your revolution was also mine" despite having different methods. (ANSA).