M5S leader Grillo tones down tweet equating rats, migrants

(ANSA) - Rome, June 17 - Outspoken 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Beppe Grillo toned down a controversial Twitter posting Wednesday after outrage over his prediction that Rome may be "swamped in rats, trash and illegal immigrants".
    Left Ecology Freedom party chief Nichi Vendola spearheaded an angry response, saying that "putting rats and illegal immigrants on the same level means lending words to barbarism".
    Later Wednesday former comic Grillo published a new version telling mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino to resign "before Rome is swamped by rats, trash and illegal-immigrant camps run by the mafia".