Northern League MEP and mayor of
Borgosesia Gianluca Buonanno has been killed in a road accident
aged 50.
The provocative politician died after the car he was
travelling in hit a stationary vehicle near Varese in the
northern Lombardy region on Sunday afternoon.
Buonanno was elected to parliament with the anti-migrant
and Euroskeptic Northern League in 2008 before being elected to
the European Parliament in 2014.
He made headlines on various occasions for making
provocative statements or gestures such as brandishing a sea
bass in the Lower House on April 1, 2014, in protest over the
government's handling of the migrant crisis.
He was suspended from parliament for 10 days as a result.
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