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Indyplus video: Italian MP to stand trial over ‘orangutan’ remark

 

Thursday 07 November 2013 21:48 GMT
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Prosecutors have called for the deputy speaker of Italy’s senate Roberto Calderoli to stand trial for the racial abuse aimed at the country's first black cabinet minister, Cecile Kyenge, after he described her as an "orangutan".

Watch her discuss racism in Italy in the video:

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