CORRECTS CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH STATUE WAS VANDALIZED. Red paint and words in Italian reading ‘’racist", above, and "rapist’’ are seen on a statue of late Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, who had ...

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The statue of a famous Italian journalist who defended colonialism, Indro Montanelli, has been daubed with red paint and defaced with the words "racist, rapist" in Milan. Anti-racism protesters ...

ROME -- Indro Montanelli, 92, a one-time fascist who became a leading name in Italian journalism and an icon of the political right, died July 22 in Milan. The cause of death was not reported. He ...

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They said the statue must be removed from the Milan park named after him. Montanelli, who died in 2001, admitted having bought and married an Eritrean girl, 12, during army service in the 1930s. It is ...