Italy should reopen
brothels which were closed by a landmark 1958 law, despite the
move not being in the government contract with the 5-Star
Movement (M5S), Interior Minster and League leader Matteo
Salvini said Thursday.
"I was and I continue to be in favour of reopening brothels,"
said the rightist leader and deputy premier.
"It's not in the government contract, because the M5S don't
agree, but I continue to think that taking this business away
from the mafias, the streets and from degradation, also from a
health standpoint, is the right path and that the Austrian model
is the most efficient one".
Pia Crove, founder of a prostitutes' civil rights group, said
"I think Salvini's brothels are a system of mass distraction.
"They always talk about the issue in electoral campaigns,
when they don't want to face real problems".
Crove pointed out, for instance, that "in Germany only 6,000
out of 200,000 sex workers registered to pay taxes".
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