Giorgia Meloni: “The raid of the Rome ghetto was a Nazi criminal act with the complicity of the fascists”

“On October 16, eighty-one years ago, Rome was the scene of one of the most ferocious criminal acts committed in Italy. At dawn the Nazis, with fascist complicity, unleashed a ferocious manhunt and snatched 1,259 innocent people from their homes to deport them in the extermination camps. Men, women, elderly people and children. No one was spared, and only 16 returned.” The Prime Minister declared it, Giorgia Melonion the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the roundup of the Jews of Rome.

“Primo Levi said: ‘if understanding is impossible to know, it is necessary’. Words that still indicate the path to follow today to keep the memory of what happened alive and to renew our commitment against anti-Semitic hatred, which has found new life after the inhumane aggression perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October 2023 against the Israeli people. On this day, the government extends its closeness to the Jewish community of Rome, to the families and descendants of the deportees”, concludes the prime minister.