Life Senator and Holocaust survivor
Liliana Segre said Thursday she was suing ex diplomat Elena
Basile over her assertion that the Shoah victim only cared about
Jewish children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A lawyer for the 93-year-old Segre, Vincenzo Saponara filed
Segre's lawsuit against Basile, who in a video on social media
had accused the life senator of only being concerned about the
lives of Jewish children after the October 7 Hamas attacks that
killed 1,200 people including minors and the Israeli response
that has so far killed, according to Hamas, over 30,000 people
in Gaza including many children.
In addition to criminal proceedings, Segre will also take legal
action in civil court.
For this reason, she has instructed another lawyer, Daniela De
Pasquale, of the Ughi and Nunziante law firm in Milan, to take
all the appropriate initiatives in civil court to have the
allegedly defamatory messages removed and to obtain compensation
for the damage caused, with compensation going to charity.
In the video posted on February 6, Basile, 64, says Segre is
"tormented only by the thought of Jewish children", adding "the
Germans too were very nice to Nazi children, do you want to
imitate them?"
in response, Basile said that "I am sorry because
the Senator with her name and determination could contribute to
the common good and to opposing double standards.
"Complaints and lawsuits fuel the climate of hatred and
anti-Semitism", said the former diplomat.
Basile, former ambassador to Belgium and Sweden, appears
regularly on Italian TV where she is known for her controversial
positions advocating the end of the Ukraine war without total
victory for Kyiv.
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