A teacher at an Italian primary school has defended calling a black student "ugly", arguing that it was an experiment to teach children about racism.
Mauro Bocci, 42, was acting as a supply teacher at a primary school in Foligno, in the central region of Umbria, when he called the only black pupil in the class up to the front and told the other children: "Look how ugly he is."
The incident, which reportedly took place two weeks ago but came to national attention this week when a local member of the leftwing party Sinistra Italiana posted about it on Facebook, was "an experiment" intended to teach the 10- and 11-year-olds about the Holocaust, Bocci claimed.
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