Barefoot Politician Cheeky in Parliament
From Reuters
ROME —
An Italian politician was ejected from Parliament on Thursday after he took off his shoes and socks and stood in the middle of the chamber in a bowl of polluted sea water.
Witnesses said that Filippo Berselli, a member of Parliament for the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, was carried out by stewards after he began to shout allegations of government inaction to clean up the Adriatic Sea.
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