Italian minister convicted of racist slurs
- June 2, 2023
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Italian court sentences minister of regions and autonomies to seven months in prison Roberto Calderolifrom the far-right Italian league, to hold racist slurs against Cecile Kiengewho was the
Italian court sentences minister of regions and autonomies to seven months in prison Roberto Calderolifrom the far-right Italian league, to hold racist slurs against Cecile Kiengewho was the first minister of the country of African descent.
A Bergamo court upheld a conviction for aggravated libel based on racial origin against Kienge after Calderoli in 2013, when he was Vice President of the Italian Senate. compare the then minister with an orangutan during a rally of his party in Treviglio, northern Italy.
The Italian judiciary has already sentenced the current minister on appeal, but the judges have overturned Calderoli’s previous convictions for not recognizing a legal impediment.
However, the Constitutional Court indicated that Calderoli could not enjoy immunity, despite the fact that the authorities said that the opinions of the senator were “expressed by a member of parliament in the exercise of his duties” and, therefore, “undoubted“.
According to the court, opinions expressed outside the specific exercise of parliamentary functions are subject to inviolability only if they imply a propaganda goal of parliamentary activity.
Thus, the prerogative “cannot extend to insults”.
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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