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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
James C. Reynolds

Italy’s foreign minister defends ICE attendance at Winter Olympics after outrage: ‘It’s not like the SS are coming’

Italy's foreign minister has launched an extraordinary defence of his government's decision to allow ICE agents into the country for the Winter Olympics, saying: “It’s not like the SS are coming.”

Foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Tuesday that the agents attending the Games would not be “those that are on the street in Minneapolis”, as the US reels from the fatal shooting of two people by ICE in the city this month.

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