ROME, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Cecile Kyenge, Italy's first black Cabinet minister, responded Thursday to the latest racist threats against her, and said they are not worthy of her country.
Wednesday morning, mannequins that were smeared with blood were laid out in front of Rome's municipal buildings as a threat to Kyenge, the integration minister, ANSA reported.
"Insults, provocations, threats beyond imagination are slipping dangerously towards a sad routine is not worthy of our Italy,'' Kyenge said on Twitter.
ANSA said members of the far-right Forza Nuova movement set out the mannequins to protest the minister's proposal to extend citizenship to the Italian-born children of migrants.
The act was the latest protest against Kyenge, who has been harshly criticized for her race and her stand on immigration.
Recently, an anti-immigrant former political activist suggested on Facebook that someone kill Kyenge.
In August, someone scrawled "Kyenge-orangutan" in large handwriting on a garage door, ANSA reported.
A senator from the anti-immigrant Northern League previously compared Kyenge to an orangutan.
