A Turin city councillor has caused a
stir by telling female colleagues who were criticising him to go
back to being housewives.
Radicals +Europe local pol Silvio Viale, who is under
investigation for alleged sexual molestation in his day job as a
gynaecologist, reportedly told them: "If the aspect of personal
antipathy prevails over the political one you have chosen the
wrong job, go back to your neighbourhoods to be housewives".
Asked to apologise by the council chair, Viale reportedly
answered: "my wife is proudly a housewife, being a housewife is
not a title of demerit".
The case was reported by La Stampa and Corriere della Sera,
among others.
As well as the allege molestation, Viale has gained headlines
for his flamboyant and controversial behaviour.
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