A Carabiniere who told a
pro-Palestinian marcher in Milan Saturday that Sergio Mattarella
"is not my president" after she challenged him on the Italian
head of State's call for Israel not to deny Palestinian
statehood was "immediately" moved to a "non-operational post"
Monday and will face disciplinary proceedings, the paramilitary
corps said.
The cop's statements that "I didn't vote for him" was captured
on video by 93-year-old historic antifascist militant Franca
Caffa who had asked the officer, when police blocked the
marchers, "what did Mattarella say?".
Mattarella had said that Israel's right to security and
self-defence should not be used as an alibi to deny Palestinians
their own state, in the longstanding internationally backed
two-state solution to the Middle East crisis that Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has said will never happen on his watch.
On Saturday, many Italians marched for the Palestinian cause and
to denounce alleged genocide in Gaza defying a ban on the
marches amid fears of antisemitic incidents on Holocaust
Remembrace Day.
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