Premier reaffirms commitment to combating antisemitism.
Meloni, leader of the right-wing Fratelli d’Italia party, condemned the “complicity” of Italy’s wartime fascist regime in the persecution and deportation of Jewish citizens, deploring “the ignominy of the racial laws of 1938”.
“On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the names and surnames of the victims and renew the memory of what happened, also through the precious testimony of survivors and their descendants”, Meloni said in a statement.
The prime minister also condemned a recent rise in antisemitism, describing it as “a disease that has returned to spread, in new and virulent forms” and reaffirming a commitment to “prevent and combat every aspect of this scourge”.
The statement from Meloni comes amid a controversy over a new miniseries which allegedly erases the role of Italian fascist collaborators in the Nazi raid on Rome’s Jewish Ghetto in 1943.
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