Anti-Semitic insults to Liliana Segre, mayor Sala calls her for “solidarity and affection”. Salvini: “Idiot people who are angry with you and Israel”

The mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala the senator for life heard this morning Liliana Segre, to express solidarity after the attacks received during the pro-Palestine demonstration on Saturday. It was, as far as we know, one friendly phone call, in which the mayor reiterated the absolute centrality of the senator for life for the Milanese community and expressed his personal affection. Regardless of the matter, there is however a lot of attention in Palazzo Marino on the climate of tension that is being felt in the city towards the Jewish community.

The senator for life is currently receiving many certificates of solidarity, but that of the mayor certainly makes her very happy, also in memory of the march that took place in Milan, in 2019, on the initiative of the Municipality, when she was assigned an escort to online threats.

The relationship between the mayor and Liliana Segre has always been very confidential and friendly, she is always a guest of honor at Palazzo Marino on the occasion of the salient moments that commemorate the Shoah, such as Remembrance Day on 27 October. At times there was no shortage of joking asides from the senator towards the mayor, in particular for the delay with which the signs for the Shoah Memorial on Platform 21 of the Central Station were created.

Meanwhile, his son Luciano Bellipaci received the phone call this morning from Primo Minellipresident of the provincial ANPI, who wanted to show solidarity with the senator after the insulting signs raised by the CARC at Saturday’s march. Solidarity that is decidedly bipartisan: “When we talk about neo-Nazism we should go and see the idiots who still have it in for Israel and the Jews and the Segre” said the deputy prime minister Matteo Salvinion the sidelines of an Anci Lombardia meeting. “Knowing as an Italian that the Venice ghetto needs strengthened controls because there are people who didn’t understand anything about the massacre of the Jews during the Second World War, for me they should be hospitalized or imprisoned depending on the case”, added the leader of the League Just like “those who go around babbling about rights and peace about Lebanon and Palestine and then want to exterminate a people and erase a state from the map”. The Foreign Minister’s comment is less forceful, but still harsh Antonio Tajani: “We are friends of Israel and we must be careful of the risk of anti-Semitism. We must be careful not to confuse criticism of Netanyahu’s policies with the Jews who live in the world. Anti-Semitism is a resurgence that must absolutely be stamped out, great solidarity with Senator Segre and to all those who have been held up to public ridicule”.

In the afternoon, during the opening of the session in the chamber, the closeness of the City council: “In the certainty of interpreting the sentiment of the entire chamber, allow me to publicly express on behalf of all of us our solidarity with Senator for life Liliana Segre – said President Elena Buscemi – who is continually the subject of unspeakable and intolerable attacks”. L “The last of these – he added while all the councilors all stood up and applauded as a sign of respect – saddens us doubly because it occurred in our city and in his”.