“The most sincere solidarity to the assaulted rabbi and to the entire Milanese Jewish Community. It is a vile and unacceptable episode that I condemn with the utmost firmness, antisemitic hatred is a plague that we cannot and do not want to tolerate in any form and that we will continue to fight with determination”: Giorgia Meloni declared this regarding the rabbi insulted, mocked, and kicked in the Jewish quarter of Milan by three young men of North African origin. For one of them, a 20-year-old of Tunisian origin arrested on charges of propaganda and incitement to commit crimes for reasons of racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination, the judge decided on the obligation to sign twice a week. The other two, the brother and a friend, were reported while free.
Besides the Prime Minister, many in the center-right immediately expressed closeness to the victim of the assault and to the entire Jewish community. Silence, however, from the opposition parties, at least so far. No message from the Five Star Movement or from the Green Left Alliance. Some condemnation from the Democratic Party. Piero Fassino, for example, spoke of a “repugnant episode,” also criticizing the “demonization campaign against the antisemitism bill.” He was joined by Graziano Delrio, Simona Malpezzi, Laura Boldrini, Ouidad Bakkali, and Pierfrancesco Majorino, PD group leader in the Lombardy Regional Council. Mayor Beppe Sala instead spoke of a “delicate situation.”
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Radical Islam, antisemitism, and violence: after the assault on the Milan rabbi, we can no longer underestimate the danger
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