The leader of France's
far-right Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, was on hand in
Milan Thursday for a convention of Italy's rightwing,
anti-immigrant Northern League (LN).
Protesters earlier in the day left a pile of manure outside
the convention center, along with a banner that read: "Racism,
fascism, homophobia are a pile of sh**".
Leftists later gathered to protest the rightwing convention
and its anti-immigrant agenda.
League chief Matteo Salvini later said such protesters are
"the red Nazis, the friends of that Islam which hangs
homosexuals and then take to the streets in the name of gay
rights".
He also said the crime of illegal immigration should stay
on the books because it "works throughout half the world".
The chief of Italy's Supreme Court made an impassioned
speech in favor of the abolition of the crime of illegal
immigration earlier in the day.
Silvio Berlusconi's third government, of which the League
was a junior member, made entering Italy illegally a crime in
2009.
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