Life Senator and Holocaust survivor
Liliana Segre is suing former ambassador to Sweden and Belgium
Elena Basile after the ex-diplomat accused the Auschwitz
suvivivor of only caring about Jewish children and allegedly
ignoring the plight of Palestinian children.
In a video posted Tuesday, Basile, 64, says the 93-year-old
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?"
Segre's son Luciano Belli Paci said Wednesday "we are going
forward with the libel suit" after getting an unsatisfactory
answer from Basile who reportedly said she had been misquoted
and urged journalists to correct their accounts of her
statements.
Basile appears regularly on Italian TV where she is known for
her controversial positions advocating the end of the Ukraine
war.
Politicians of all stripes have voiced solidarity with Segre who
denies not having sympathy for the children of Gaza, where Hamas
says over 27,500 people including mainly women and children have
been killed by the Israeli response to the brutal and
unprecedented attack by the Islamist militants who killed some
1,200 and took about 150 hostage.
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