(ANSA) - Brussels, October 24 - European Parliament President
Antonio Tajani on Tuesday condemned stickers of Anne Frank in a
AS Roma shirt that were put in the Curva Sud of the Stadio
Olimpico during Lazio's 3-0 win over Cagliari Sunday.
"I cannot fail to firmly condemn what happening in Rome,
where a group of hooligans used the image of Anne Frank to
offend the fans of another club," Tajani said during a plenary
session in Strasbourg.
"It was a serious deed. Everyone has the right to practise
their religion and the Jewish community is part of out union.
"I think anti-Semitism should remain exclusively a horrible
experience from our past".
Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) prosecutors are set to open
a probe into the incident.
"This is not a curva, this is not soccer, this is not
sport," said the president of Rome's Jewish community, Ruth
Dureghello, posting a photo of the Anne Frank sticker and
another one bearing the words "Jewish Roma fan".
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