Italy continues “very high interest” due to its possible appearance “lone wolves” The Italian Interior Minister said today that they are ready to carry out terrorist attacks due to “increased radicalization” due to the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Matteo Piantedosi.
“We are going through a very difficult and uncertain time” Speaking at the extraordinary Senate committee on the fight against intolerance, racism and anti-hostility, he said: “The conflict in the Middle East also carries the risk of unleashing Islamist radicalization; this risk has been tragically realized in France and Belgium in recent months.” Incitement to Semitism, hatred and violence.
According to the minister, “the situation requires a very high level of attention” and Home Affairsr “updated the existing table based on possible internal risk profiles,” he added.
Minister spoke of ‘lone wolves’ due to risk of action”should never be underestimatedIn a previous interview with the newspaper “Il Messaggero”, he also announced that he would meet with “the mayors of the three major metropolitan areas” to “expand the extraordinary territorial control operations”.
Research activities “We concentrated on this front” “He said and added: “Our border surveillance system is very careful. We have maximized anti-terrorism prevention activities from the very beginning.”
In his speech to the parliament he said: 28,000 “potential targets” The report on attacks by possible terrorists in the country, 205 of which were linked to Israel, especially on diplomatic or religious centers, highlighted the “notable increase” in anti-Semitic acts.
Since the Hamas attackOctober 7, 2023 He explained that this triggered the Israeli attack, and that by 31 December, 135 incidents of “racial, anti-Semitic or regional discrimination” had been recorded in Italy, leading to the investigation of 42 people as alleged perpetrators.
According to the annual report on antisemitism, in 2022 Italian Contemporary Ebráica Documentation Center Foundation, There were 241 cases of anti-Semitism; this figure showed a slight increase compared to 2021 (226).
Most anti-Semitic acts “Writings on the walls, anti-Israeli banners, slogans during the parade, harm and insults.”said Piantedosi.
The most recent of these was the destruction of a graffiti of Anne Frank in Milan (north) or the appearance of graffiti with swastikas and crosses. stars of david Both in the Jewish quarter of Rome in November 2023.