Placebo’s Brian Molko has been sued by Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni after seemingly calling her a “piece of shit, fascist, racist” throughout Sonic Park competition final month, the BBC stories, citing Italian media. Prosecutors in Turin took up the investigation final month, suspecting Molko of insulting state establishments; in Italy, defaming the federal government, parliament, courts, or military can draw a effective of as much as to €5,000 (about $5,517). Meloni has not publicly commented on Molko’s remarks or the lawsuit.
Meloni leads the nationalist Brothers of Italy social gathering, in addition to a hard-right coalition voted into energy final September. The federal government has since vilified migrants and asylum seekers, ordered municipalities to cease registering same-sex mother and father, and appointed Brothers of Italy loyalists to high positions within the public broadcaster, as a latest New York Instances op-ed notes.
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