The Senate on Wednesday approved
setting up an extraordinary commission against hate, racism and
anti-semitism, proposed by Holocaust survivor and life Senator
Liliana Segre.
The motion was approved by 151 votes to none with 98
abstentions.
Segre said Monday of the social media haters who post an
average 200 racist messages a day against her that they are
"people to be pitied or treated".
Segre, 89, said "I'm a polite person, I don't know any
language other than that".
Segre was speaking ahead of a seminar at Milan's IULM
University.
Earlier Monday it was revealed that the Milan prosecutor's
office opened a probe in 2018 into harassment and threats from
insults on social media directed at Segre.
The investigation, which is still open, is against unknown
suspects.
Segre told Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview
published Monday that she receives 200 racially motivated hate
messages a day.
Segre was named Senator for life by president Sergio
Mattarella on 19 January 2018.
Born into a Milanese Jewish family in 1930, Segre was
expelled from her school at the age of eight after the
promulgation of Italian Racial Laws in 1938.
In 1943, at 13, she was arrested with many members of her
family and deported to Auschwitz.
After 1990 she started to speak to the public, especially
young people, about her experiences.
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