Italy’s first black minister blunts the spear of intolerance

Italy's first black minister Cecile Kyenge was yet again on the receiving end of vicious racial attacks, after a neo-Nazi was this week detained for distributing leaflets containing racist insults against the minister.

Earlier this week, police in northern Italy detained a 58-year-old neo-Nazi for distributing leaflets containing racist insults against Kyenge, who is now facing charges of contempt against the Italian State.

The unnamed man was identified from security camera footage at the train station in Lodi, where the leaflets were distributed.

Police searched the man's home and found Nazi memorabilia such as uniforms and replicas of grenades and bombs.

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