Italy's Serie A chief has apologized for the ape artwork used for its anti-...
FILE PHOTO: Italian soccer league Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo and Italian artist Simone Fugazzotto speak at a news conference presenting an anti-racism campaign artwork by Fugazzotto featuring three side-by-side paintings of apes, in Milan, Italy, December 16, 2019. Handout via REUTERS
- Italy’s Serie A chief has apologized for the ape artwork used for its anti-racism campaign which has been widely criticized.“We realized it was inappropriate,” the league’s chief executive Luigi De Siervo said in a statement on Tuesday. Italian clubs AS Roma and AC Milan have criticized the choice of imagery that the league initially said “aims to spread the values of integration, multiculturalism and brotherhood”.Reporting by Martyn Herman; editing by Ken Ferris
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