Protests, packed Churchill statue

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 12 - The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, facing Westminster, was packed to protect it in view of the anti-racist protests scheduled for the weekend. Sky News makes it known. The wartime premier, considered a hero at home because among the main architects of the defeat of the Nazis, was also the subject of criticism for some of his positions considered racist, for example the one in which he said he "hated" the Indians, considering them a "beastly people with a religionebestiale ". Although most of the protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement have been peaceful, statues throughout the country have been targeted. In recent days some demonstrators had thrown the monument dedicated to the slaughter Edward Colston in the port of Bristol.
    Churchill's statue was "packed" last night. And also the statue of the slaver Robert Milligan has been removed from outside the Museum of London.