A 12-year-old Jewish boy was physically and verbally assaulted in a park near his home in the Tuscan province of Italy and police opened an investigation. The attackers said to the boy: “You have to be quiet because you are a Jew” and also, “You have to die in the oven” | The mayor condemned the act
Italian police are investigating an assault case of a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Tuscany, the boy complained that teenagers kicked him, hit him in the head and hurled antisemitic words at him.
The boy’s parents reported Tuesday the attack that took place in a park near their home in the Tuscan town of Campilia, near Livorno, according to city officials who spoke with the AP news agency.
The Nation reported that the attackers told the boy, “You have to be quiet because you are a Jew,” and used degrading and insulting language. They also said “you have to die in the oven”, referring to the ovens of the Nazis in World War II, so Jews were murdered and their remains burned in the ovens.
The boy’s father told the newspaper that no one intervened for his son. The mayor of Campilia Maritima, Alberta Tiquiati, said the documentation from the security cameras in the park is being reviewed by investigators.
“The child is in shock,” Mayor Tikiati told local media, “this must be dealt with firmly, they cannot be resolved, it cannot be explained.”
Liliana Sagra, a lifelong senator from the Holocaust, expressed outrage at the attack and said: “These are things that amaze me, but unfortunately I am used to it,” said Sagra, who is under police protection after receiving threats on her life several years ago. “History repeats itself.” . Concluded.