A Veneto bookstore on Monday put a
sign in its window asking patrons not to ask them for a book by
an army general who has been replaced over the self-published
work chiding gays, Jews, migrants, feminists and
environmentalists.
"We kindly ask customers not to ask us for (Roberto) Vannacci's
book," reads the sign put up by the Ubik bookshop in
Castelfranco Veneto.
"We don't have it because it is self-published, but I wouldn't
sell it anyway, because I could never ask my black employee, or
my homosexual colleague, to satisfy a customer who asks for a
book in which it says that they are people against nature," the
owner, Clara Abatangelo, told ANSA.
Vannacci's book, The World Back To Front, has become one of the
hottest sellers on Amazon in Italy amid a surge in social media
support and sympathy for his views.
His right to free speech has been defended by members of Premier
Giorga Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party despite
the disciplinary action against him being launched by a top FdI
figure, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto.
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