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. M..
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.
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