Episode of racism in Rome

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Threats to the Jews in Rome, Israel: “intolerable and brutal event" 

One day before the celebration of the Day of Remembrance, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has expressed concern about the sending a pig's head the Israeli Embassy in Rome and other places symbol of the capital. The prosecutor's office has opened a file.

An intolerable and brutal event”. With these words the Israeli Foreign Ministry has described the sending of a pig’s head to the Israeli Embassy in Rome, such as the Synagogue. “They are events that cannot be tolerated "and" we count on the police, "added the ministry. The provocative gesture comes at a short distance from the celebrations for the Day of Memory: "It 's amazing that this could have happened in Rome - said the spokesman of the Ministry in Jerusalem, Yigal Palmor - We did not expect such accidents. We have full confidence in the police and in the fact that full light will be shed, by bringing to justice the perpetrators. It 's definitely an isolated incident and not a wave. But this does not mean that it is less offensive. It cannot - he reiterated - be tolerated. "

The prosecutor’s office in Rome has opened an investigation and makes its way to the hypothesis of the crime of incitement to racial hatred, for the three parcels containing a pig's head delivered in the capital in front of the synagogue, the Embassy of Israel and the museum on the square Sant'Egidio. The boxes also contained a card with delirious sentences making reference to the Jewish economy and the Jewish deportations. Numerous messages of solidarity arrived:

The Community of Sant'Egidio - "The outrageous insult to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in the days dedicated to the memory of the victims of the most horrific events of the twentieth century, represents a threat to their heirs, to the survivors, but also to all those who believe and are committed to building a world of peace, tolerance, dialogue and collaboration. Who sent these macabre messages - the message says- wants to poison the atmosphere of peaceful and constructive coexistence that has been established for some time in the capital of Italy, going back to a past condemned by all civilized people. "

Diocese of Rome - "The Catholic community of Rome expresses closeness, solidarity and pain towards the Jewish brothers for severe manifestations of anti-Semitism that they received in these days, the more serious because they came at the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January."

Vendola: "We are all Jews" - Beyond our religious beliefs we all feel projected into the space of a Jewish synagogue and we all feel Jewish, "said Nichi Vendola from the stage of the Congress of Sel in Riccione, returning to the racist incidents in Rome. "The severed pig's head is delivered as an epistle by the mafia and is the symbol of what is threatening Europe."

Gozi: "'Never again' is an absolute warning" - "The shameful parcels sent to the embassy of Israel and to the Synagogue of Rome tell us how long is the journey to reach the defeat of the negative aspects of racism and anti-Semitism. An act that takes on an even more terrible meaning because it came on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, "said Sandro says Gozi, a member of the Democratic Party and President of the Delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.