Milan, 9 December (LaPresse) – The Court of Turin has convicted Vittorio Feltri of “discriminatory harassment” for comments made on 28 November 2024 during the radio programme “La Zanzara”, responding to questions about the case of Ramy Elgaml, who died four days earlier after a chase with the Milan police, an episode that sparked protests in the Corvetto neighbourhood. “I don't go to the suburbs, I don't like them. They are chaotic, ugly and, above all, full of non-EU citizens, whom I can't stand,” said the regional councillor for Fratelli d'Italia in Lombardy and editorial director of Il Giornale. 'Just look at them… Then you see what they get up to here in Milan, eh, how can you love them? … Yes, I don't love Muslims… But I would shoot them in the mouth.‘ Faced with the objection that ’it's not that all Muslims are thieves and murderers,‘ the journalist replied: ’All of them, all of them. I am not at all ashamed to consider Muslims inferior races. Races." Judge Ludovico Sburlati of the First Civil Section ordered the long-standing editor of Libero and L'Indipendente to pay €20,000 in compensation to the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI), which brought the case with lawyers Anna Brambilla and Marta Lavanna and in which the associations Arci, Lunaria, Cambio Passo and La Casa Nel Mondo onlus, represented by lawyers Carmela Maria Cordaro, Olivia Polimanti and Alberto Guariso.
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