The Italian minister who wore a T-shirt depicting one of the Danish carricatures of Mohammed on TV, resigned over the weekend after being blamed for violent riots outside the Italian consulate in Libya.
Some ten people were killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi last Friday (17 February) in riots believed to have been triggered by Roberto Calderoli's T-shirt display.
Mr Calderoli, who belongs to the Lega Nord party, last week also said fellow Italians could order the T-shirt from ...
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