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Congolese Woman Attacks Italy's Salvini


Wed 09 Sep 2020 | 08:52 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

Far-right Italian leader Matteo Salvini has been attacked by a young woman while campaigning in Tuscany ahead of regional elections.

The incident happened in Pontassieve just outside Florence, as Salvini arrived ahead of campaigning for his anti-immigrant League party.

A video footage shows a woman in the crowd grabbing hold of the former Deputy PM, tearing his shirt and ripping two rosaries from his neck.

The woman, 29, said to be from the Congo, shouts 'I curse you' in Italian before she was quickly removed by police who later told the Italian ANSA news agency she was in a 'disturbed state'.

Local police said that the woman "had been cautioned and was not arrested as her actions did not appear to have been premeditated as she had just happened to find herself alongside Salvini while returning home from work."

Salvini, head of the League party who promotes policies aimed at preventing migrants from entering Italy, showed his torn shirt and damaged rosaries in a Facebook post.