New insults on social media to Liliana Segre after 25 April. Investigations on a hundred accounts

Liliana Segre continues to be the object of attacks on social media. This time it was her participation on 25 April in the commemoration of Liberation Day in Pesaro, the town where she spent her holidays and where she met her husband Alfredo Belli Paci, and the screening of Ruggero Gabbai's documentary 'Liliana' on Rai 3 on Saturday evening. On the social page of Pd MEP Matteo Ricci, who posted a photo in Pesaro with the life senator, a flurry of comments arrived, some positive, but others purely insulting such as "work makes you free but this one has remained a slave of Netanyahu", "Instead of inviting her you could have invited those who tell of her misadventures without stealing our life senator's salary". And other insults arrived on the page of the mayor Andrea Biancani and on that of the municipality. Phrases like 'The most Nazi of them all', 'Old Italian people don't want you', 'They are doing the recycling'.

"These are serious words that should be pursued by the justice system,' the mayor blurted out. 'Pesaro is with her and it is a good thing, very good thing, that we have done to give her honorary citizenship'. Already in the past, the senator, through her lawyer Vincenzo Saponara, has filed complaints and the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has closed its investigation on 12 people accused of threats and defamation aggravated by racial hatred against her (for 17 others) presenting a table with 246 social accounts with the insults and threats they contain). And now it seems a foregone conclusion that he will also consider filing charges for the new insults. A situation that has continued to worsen since 7 October 2023 but that does not deter the senator, who will be 95 years old on 10 September, from attending meetings and continuing her work of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive.

The investigation into social insults for defamation, with the aggravating circumstance of racial hatred discrimination, against Liliana Segre must continue. This was decided by the Milan gip Alberto Carboni, who ordered the Public Prosecutor's Office to identify 86 accounts with new investigations, essentially accepting the request to go ahead with the proceedings made by the life senator, through her lawyer Vincenzo Saponara. The same judge ordered the registration of nine people who had not been investigated and the forced indictment of seven others. The Public Prosecutor's Office had asked for 17 positions to be archived. The charge against Chef Rubio was filed.

Accusing "a veteran of the extermination camps of Nazism in itself" constitutes defamation and is "a disfigurement of the objective truth" and "the most infamous of offences against the reputation of those who spent their lives bearing witness to the horrors of the regime and cultivating the memory of the holocaust". This was written by the gip Alberto Carboni in the order in which, largely rejecting the requests of the Public Prosecutor's Office, he ordered the investigation of 86 accounts for the insults to Liliana Segre, to investigate nine other people and to order the forced indictment of seven. The 'web', wrote the gip, cannot be a free zone.

Bipartisan solidarity with the life senator was immediate.