Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, has lashed out at Carla Bruni-Sarkozy for not persuading France to open its borders to illegal migrants, saying she should receive them in her "chateaux".
Miss Mussolini, 47, a Right-wing MP and former actress and model tore into France's Italian-born first lady for failing to talk her husband, President Nicolas Sarkozy into taking in Libyans and Tunisians who have been ariving at the Italian island of Lampedusa by the thousand since January.
Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy should have "protested against the shutting of French borders to illegal immigrants decided by her husband", she is quoted as saying by the Le Figaro newspaper.
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