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Placebo's Brian Molko charged for calling Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a "facist" and "racist"

The band recently released their documentary 'Placebo: This Search For Meaning'

Videos posted of the incident in 2023 showed the frontman describing Meloni in Italian as “a piece of shit fascist, racist” and then saying “fuck you” during the band’s set in front of 10,000 fans at Sonic Park Festival in Turin in July 2023. Now, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa, Italy’s justice ministry has given prosecutors the right to launch legal proceedings against Molko on charges of “contempt of the institutions”, an offence that carries a fine of between €1,000 (£830) and €5,000 (£4,150). Meloni has also previously said she wishes to focus on “traditional Christian family values”, preventing abortions, renegotiating EU treaties, lower taxes and ensuring same-gender couples do not have surrogacy or adoption rights.

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