Milan mayor refuses to remove defaced statue of Italian journalist

BLM protesters targeted monument to Indro Montanelli, who admitted buying 12-year-old Eritrean girl

Milan's mayor has rejected calls to remove a statue from a public park of an Italian journalist who acknowledged having bought a 12-year-old Eritrean girl to be his wife during Italy's colonial occupation in the 1930s.

Giuseppe Sala said in a Facebook video that he was perplexed by the lightness" with which Indro Montanelli had confessed to buying the child from her father, in a widely circulated video of a 1969 talkshow appearance, but said lives should be judged in their totality" and he believed the statue should stay.