Footballer Balotelli Blasts Italy's First Black Senator

Mario Balotelli, who was born in Italy to Ghanaian parents took to Instagram to criticise Nigerian-born Toni Iwobi, who was elected as the first black senator in Italy's history and who is a member of the far-right anti-immigrant League Party. Iwobi has long argued that racism in Italy is as a result of illegal immigration.

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