Italy investigates Placebo singer for calling far-right PM ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’

Brian Molko criticised Giorgia Meloni during a concert at the Sonic Park festival

Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the frontman of the British rock group Placebo, who called the far-right Italian prime minister racist" and fascist", according to local media reports.

Brian Molko, 50, was performing last week with the band at the Sonic Park festival in Stupinigi outside Turin when he hurled insults from the stage about Giorgia Meloni.