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Fascist racial laws indelible stain for Italy - Meloni

Govt ready to fight anti-Semitism says premier

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 13 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday that the Fascist racial laws targetting Italy's Jews were an "indelible stain" on the nation's history.
    "The racial laws of 1938 represent the lowest point in Italian history, a shame that has marked our history forever," Meloni said at the unveiling of the plaque at the offices of the Lazio journalists guilt dedicated to the names and stories of Roman journalists who were victims of Nazi/Fascist repression and violence.
    "I have said this many times times and I repeat it," added the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party.
    "It is an indelible stain, an infamy that happened amid the silence of too many".
    She stressed that the battle against discrimination and anti-Semitism "has not been won".
    "Anti-Semitism re-emerges with new faces and new and different instruments," she said.
    "The Italian government is always ready, focused and attentive to fighting every for, of discrimination and anti-Semitism that risks still being present among us". (ANSA).
   

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