Anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) chief Beppe Grillo asked Premier Matteo Renzi on
Twitter Monday whether it's legal to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.
"Is it really legal to sell arms to Saudi Arabia
@matteorenzi?" wrote the comedian-turned-politician, who leads
Italy's second-largest party.
"The Saudis - whom everyone indicates as the indirect
supporters of (Islamic Sunni) fundamentalists - have been
bombing Shiite rebels in Yemen for months," Grillo tweeted.
"These bombings have caused thousands of civilian
casualties (including 830 women and children). Italian-made
bombs have been found in Yemen. And yet Italy in 1990 passed a
good law (...) explicitly banning the sale of military materials
and components to countries in a state of armed conflict".
Grillo went on to call on the government to immediately
halt arms sales "to all the sheikhs" in the name of national
security.
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