Italian general suspended for book slammed as racist

Italy’s defense ministry has suspended a general and cut his pay for breaching army neutrality with a book that critics said insulted sexual and ethnic minorities, his lawyer said Wednesday. Roberto Vannacci, 55, had already been ousted last year from the management of the Military Geographical Institute, and moved to an essentially administrative role as chief of staff of the operational land forces command. He has now been suspended from that position for 11 months, with the resulting “halving of his salary,” his lawyer Giorgio Carta said. The announcement comes as Vannacci is mulling standing for European Parliament elections in […]…

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