A Rome university professor was
cleared Wednesday of calling Farm Minister Francesco
Lollobrigida a "neo-Hitlerite" after he sued her for the term
she used.
A judge in Rome declared that there was no need to proceed
against Donatella Di Cesare, professor of philosophy at the
Sapienza University in Rome, who was accused of defamation by
the minister, who is Premier Giorgia Meloni's brother in law.
For the judge, "the fact does not constitute a crime".
During a television broadcast, commenting on Lollobrigida's
words on the 'ethnic replacement' of native Italians mainly by
Muslim migrants, she had said that "the minister's words cannot
be taken for a slip of the tongue because he spoke as a
Gauleiter, as a neo-Hitlerite (local) governor".
Di Cesare, 68, has also been in hot water after voicing
solidarity with a Rd Brigades terrorist who helped kidnap slain
Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1978, after she died in
March, calling her a "comrade" and saying "your revolution was
also mine" despite having different methods.
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