[bitontheslide]

An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in Italy has been assigned police guards for protection after receiving hundreds of threats on social media.

Liliana Segre, who was sent to the notorious Auschwitz death camp at 13, has been subjected to a barrage of anti-Semitic messages in recent days.

It comes after Ms Segre, an Italian life senator, called for parliament to establish a committee to combat hate.

The motion passed despite a lack of support by Italy's right-wing parties.

Members of the nationalist League party, led by Matteo Salvini, the centre-right Forza Italia and the far-right Brothers of Italy all abstained from the vote in Milan last week.

The motion called for the establishment of an extraordinary commission in Italy to combat all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence on ethnic and religious grounds.

Ms Segre said after the vote that the abstentions made her feel "like a Martian in the Senate".

"I appealed to the conscience of everyone and thought that a commission against hatred as a principle would be accepted by all," she said at the time, Italy's La Repubblica reported (in Italian).

Since then, she has reported receiving as many as 200 hate messages a day.

Some of the threats have been so serious that the prefect of Milan, Renato Saccone, held a meeting on Wednesday with the committee for security and public order, where it was agreed that Ms Segre needed police protection.

The measures that were approved include Ms Segre being accompanied in public by two paramilitary carabinieri officers.

Meanwhile, the Milan public prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation into the hate messages targeting the senator and had requested the assistance of Italy's anti-terror police.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50329597

[Niamh.]

Poor woman, after going through everything she did as a teenager too

[Twosugars]

Poor woman. Survived the nazis and now is threatened by neo-nazis!

[Tom4784]

Disgraceful, but sadly not unexpected. Nazism is on the rise once again and any politician that voted against the committee should be ashamed.


It's not a surprise to see a 'centre' party vote with extremists and nationalists, Centre is pretty much the right wing with a modicum of self awareness.

[Livia]

Disgraceful. But it's not more disgraceful because it is the far right. It's equally as disgraceful whether it's the far left or the far right.

[Cherie]

I've just been listening some poor woman in actual flood of tears due to what is going on in the UK at the moment, and fearful of Corbyn getting into power, how quickly we appear to have forgotton the Holocaust

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I've just been listening some poor woman in actual flood of tears due to what is going on in the UK at the moment, and fearful of Corbyn getting into power, how quickly we appear to have forgotton the Holocaust

It's an actual obsession... why is Corbyn even mentioned in a thread in which the topic is the far right in Italy?!
I'm sorry but it IS more disgraceful because us the far right because there is NO EVIDENCE of far left terrorism.
It's just dog whistle tactics, that are as shamefull as they are pathetic in their dishonesty!

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It's an actual obsession... why is Corbyn even mentioned in a thread in which the topic is the far right in Italy?!
I'm sorry but it IS more disgraceful because us the far right because there is NO EVIDENCE of far left terrorism.
It's just dog whistle tactics, that are as shamefull as they are pathetic in their dishonesty!

Totally.

Maybe corbyn moonlights as Italian neo nazi?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It's an actual obsession... why is Corbyn even mentioned in a thread in which the topic is the far right in Italy?!
I'm sorry but it IS more disgraceful because us the far right because there is NO EVIDENCE of far left terrorism.
It's just dog whistle tactics, that are as shamefull as they are pathetic in their dishonesty!

I mentioned it because the woman in floods of tears was Jewish and mentioned him, so its totally in context kizzy, no need for the histrionics

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Livia

Disgraceful. But it's not more disgraceful because it is the far right. It's equally as disgraceful whether it's the far left or the far right.

Neo-Nazism is more of a right wing than a left wing ideology tbf, although I do agree with you that extremism on both sides is unacceptable.

And why anyone would want to harm an 89 year old is beyond me, especially when she's advocating for peace.

[arista]

Good she now has Police Guards.

[smudgie]

That poor lady.
What an awful world we live in, when people thinks it’s ok to threaten somebody for their beliefs, especially at her age and after the hell she must have been through in the war.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by smudgie

That poor lady.
What an awful world we live in, when people thinks it’s ok to threaten somebody for their beliefs, especially at her age and after the hell she must have been through in the war.

I 100% agree Smudgie it's the most base of human that would terrorise such a corageous lady in her twilight years

[parmnion]

Would be the far left in Britain.


So happy it's been highlighted in Europe. .imo it's time Britain started to open its eyes.

[parmnion]

Must be an election coming up Cherie...

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by parmnion

Must be an election coming up Cherie...

I mean to accuse me of having an obsession about Corbyn....kizzy of all people irony...what!

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I mean to accuse me of having an obsession about Corbyn....kizzy of all people irony...what!

Don't you like older men then

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I mean to accuse me of having an obsession about Corbyn....kizzy of all people irony...what!

Yes... I rarely speak of him yet his name comes up on every thread it's beyond bizarre.
Italian neo nazis ...grrr Corbyn
Surely I'm not the only one to have noticed this ridiculous trend?

[Shaun]

Italy seems to be one of the most backwards and racist countries going at the moment, you need only pay 15 minutes attention to the football stories to see that.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Italy seems to be one of the most backwards and racist countries going at the moment, you need only pay 15 minutes attention to the football stories to see that.

I'm still shocked that the Cagliari fans keep getting away with the monkey chanting over the last few seasons.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I'm still shocked that the Cagliari fans keep getting away with the monkey chanting over the last few seasons.

"Lukaku was subjected to monkey chants as he prepared to take – and score – the match-winning penalty on 1 September at the Sardegna Arena. However, following an investigation the Italian Football Federation’s (FIGC) sporting justice panel has ruled that the chants could not be considered discriminatory in terms of their “scale and realisation”. A statement from Lega Serie A said the panel had therefore decided not to apply sanctions to Cagliari.

Police in the Sardinian capital told FIGC investigators that “only on the occasion” of Lukaku’s penalty were “chants, shouts and whistles aimed at the opposition athlete as he prepared to take his shot”.

Individual spectators were observed chanting at the Belgian but, because of the volume of the noise emanating from the stand, it was claimed that it was not clear what was being said and so it could not be proven that it was discriminatory."

from the Guardian

[arista]

Great to have you back LT.

[parmnion]

Football players should just walk off if they here those chants..why perform for people like that..

Keep doing it, the authorities will soon knock it on the head.

I would applaud that if I was at a game.