“Today more than ever, after the horrible and barbaric events that are taking place in Israel, the government expresses its closeness and solidarity with the people of Israel and the Italian Jewish communities,” said Meloni.
Her comments came during a statement on the 41st anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Great Synagogue in Rome in which one person, two-year-old Stefano Gaj Taché, was killed and 37 were injured.
“Terror will never prevail,” added Meloni.
The PM recalled how “no-one has paid for the grenades and machine-gun fire that ended Stefano’s life that day, destroyed a family, caused pain in many others, and shocked an entire community”.
“Today, we renew our commitment not to forget what happened and to continue to demand that the facts of that terrible day become historical and legal truth,” she said.
The Rome synagogue was attacked by five armed Palestinian terrorists at the close of the morning Sabbath service on October 9, 1982.
That year, an Israeli operation was ongoing in Lebanon and a wave of attacks against Jewish cemeteries, schools and places of worship were reported across Europe, including the most serious in Rome.
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