A senior parliamentarian in
the anti-immigration Northern League party has bowed to criticism and says
he has apologised for likening Italy 's first black minister
to an "orangutan".
Cecile Kyenge, an Italian citizen
born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been the target of repeated
racial slurs since her appointment as integration minister in April.
Roberto Calderoli, vice president
of Italy 's Senate, said
on Saturday at a political rally in the northern town of Treviglio : "I love animals - bears
and wolves, as everyone knows - but when I see the pictures of Kyenge I
cannot but think of, even if I'm not saying she is one, the features of an
orangutan."
He said the success of Kyenge
encouraged "illegal immigrants" to come to Italy , and she should be a minister
"in her own country", according to media reports.
An animal only can see animals, how any animal’s vision can see human as a human!
