«Kyenge orangutan»: Minister Calderoli sentenced to 7 months
For the exponent of the Lega, sentence suspended and not mentioned in the register in the new trial for the words addressed to the ex exponent of the Democratic Party during a rally in 2013The Minister for Regional Affairs and Autonomies Roberto Calderoli was sentenced by the Court in Bergamo to 7 months , with a suspended sentence and not mentioned in the criminal record, in the new trial for the offenses against the former Minister of Integration Cecile Kyenge .
Calderoli on 13 July 2013 defined the former exponent of the Democratic Party as an "orango" during a rally at the party of the League in Treviglio, in the Bergamo area.
The charge was racially aggravated defamation. Kyenge had not brought a civil action, while the Cassation had annulled the previous convictions in the first and second degree.
In December the crime will go into prescription.
(Unioneonline/lf)