Italian Lawmaker Demands an End to Dwarf-Tossing
Australian organizers of “dwarf-tossing” competitions are recruiting dwarfs in Europe for an international championship, and an Italian official today asked the European Parliament to condemn the contests.
Communist Deputy Vera Squarcialupi said the assembly must “condemn most strongly the commercial exploitation of dwarfs.”
She said the competitions involve “throwing a person of restricted growth, i.e., a dwarf, as far as possible, and this is done by particularly robust men.”
The Australian government, she said in a draft resolution, must “be urged to ban it.”
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