The government is to ask organizers
of pro-Palestinian marches in Rome, Milan and other cities
scheduled for Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday to be put
off, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said Thursday.
He said "some demonstrations could have consequences that harm
some legally sanctioned values, like the commemoration of the
Shoah.
He said he was confident that public order authorities,
especially in the two major cities, would be able to negotiate
with organisers "so as not to deny a right, but to make the
marches compatible with values."
Rome's Jews on Wednesday called on authorities to ban the
pro-Palestinian march in the Italian capital on Holocaust
Remembrance Day on January 27.
The president of Rome's Jewish Community, Victor Fadlun, said
the march would be a "defeat for everyone" if it went ahead.
"We don't understand how it was possible to grant authorisation
on a Day that is international, all the more so in the context
of October 7, an anti-semitic massacre (by Hamas) the like of
which had not been seen since the times of Nazism.
"We ask the institutions, national and local, to prevent this
disgrace".
He said the "wound" of the Shoah would be reopened by an
allegedly anti-semitic event on the Day of Memory.
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