Posted on Nov 7, 2019
Holocaust survivor under guard amid death threats
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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.
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.
Holocaust survivor under guard amid death threats
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This is horrible. She does not deserve this treatment.
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1SG Steven Imerman
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MAJ Ken Landgren- Trump's been gone for over a year. Do you charge him to dwell continually in your head, or allow him to stay there rent free?
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1SG Steven Imerman -
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Still suffering from TDS I see.
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You are a moron wrapped in stupid.
1SG Steven Imerman
MAJ Ken Landgren- Trump's been gone for over a year. Do you charge him to dwell continually in your head, or allow him to stay there rent free?
HALL OF FAME CAUSTIC TRUMP SUPPORTERS
PO1 Kevin Dougherty
Still suffering from TDS I see.
SFC Michael McCauley
You are a moron wrapped in stupid.
1SG Steven Imerman
MAJ Ken Landgren- Trump's been gone for over a year. Do you charge him to dwell continually in your head, or allow him to stay there rent free?
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1SG Steven Imerman
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MAJ Ken Landgren - It was a simple question. A lady is getting anti-Semitic attacks in Italy and your response is, "Trump has done a great job radicalizing the country." How, exactly, did you spring to the conclusion that Trump was the major influence in unsavory Italian political infighting?
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It's sad that so many idiots, including the Iranian government, claim that the Holocaust never happened. Those disbelievers should watch five came back.
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Sgt Kelli Mays
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It boggles my mind that there are so many who deny the holocaust. How is this even so?
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