Statue of famed Italian writer smeared red in protest against racism

A statue of famed Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, who defended colonialism, was smeared with red paint in Milan, as protests against racism rage in many countries. The words "racist" and "rapist" were sprayed under the statue of Montanelli, who bought a 12-year-old Eritrean girl as his wife while serving in the Italian forces during its invasion of Ethiopia in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in 1936.