Model seeks legal advice after Salvini’s party uses image for anti-Islam poster

Anna Haholkina tells of shock and says no one from deputy Italian PM’s League sought her for permission

A woman whose photograph was used in a controversial poster campaign by Italy’s far-right League, a member of Giorgia Meloni’s ruling coalition, has said she will consult lawyers, describing the images as “racist”.

Anna Haholkina, an Ukrainian-Italian model who lives in Rimini, said she was shocked to see her face on the posters that have sprung up in Milan in recent weeks as the League, which is led by the deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, intensifies its anti-Islam stance in the run-up to next months’s European elections.