Rome Jewish Community Appeals to Stop Football Matches Over Anti-Semitic Content

Stop the matches, stop football: in this way the healthy fans will rebel and isolate the fringes that spread anti-Semitic content connected to the world of football among the corners and streets of the city. The appeal comes from the Jewish Community of Rome, after yet another episode that caused scandal in the capital. This time they are some stickers depicting Mr Enrich, symbol of the Lazio ultras, who is accompanied, wearing striped pajamas, to the Auschwitz concentration camp by Hitler and Mussolini who are instead wearing a Roma shirt. Made by a Giallorossi fan, they appeared a few days ago in the Portonaccio area and hit all the newspapers. A shame that brings to mind the images of Anne Frank in a Roma shirt, created some time ago by the opposing fans.

Enough is enough, said Daniele Massimo Regard, Councilor for Memory of the Roman Community, “more drastic measures” are needed: “A t-shirt or the initiative half an hour before the match are cosmetic things that are no longer enough – he declared to the microphones of a radio – For years there have been groups within the fans that act in this way. The problem is not the fans themselves, the problem is the reaction: there must be a strong reaction.” Hence the proposal: “Stop the match, stop the football, stop the entertainment, you will see that the fan who did nothing will be the first to rebel”.

Mayor Roberto Gualtieri also addresses the companies: the stickers, according to the mayor, are “a shame: there must be no underestimation or indulgence towards the use of a criminal ideology. I am sure that all the companies will do their utmost to avoid that there are references to barbaric ideologies that have nothing to do with the beauty of sport.” Giovanni Malagò, president of CONI, is speechless: “It’s disarming – his comment – because in addition to the damage to the community, certain individuals also cause damage to the team they support. Condemning certain attitudes is far too little, I’m very sorry for these episodes” .

Concern is rising, especially in view of next Saturday’s derby at the Olimpico. According to the media, a new homophobic and anti-Semitic chorus from some Roma fans is circulating on Instagram: the Lazio fan, to the tune of a famous song by Annalisa (godmother of the next Roman Pride), is told among other things “fr …Jew, get back on that train.” And it is certainly not the first of the slogans that use anti-Semitic insults to offend the opposite curve.

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2024-04-04 19:35:00
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