MILAN – Milan’s mayor on Sunday resisted calls to remove a statue from a public park of a late Italian journalist who had acknowledged having had a 12-year-old Eritrean bride 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 having bought the child bride from her father, in a widely circulated video of a 1969 talk show appearance.
But he said “lives should be judged in their totality.”“Montanelli was more than that. He was a great journalist, a journalist who fought for the liberty of the state, an independent journalist.