They first insulted him and shoved him, then attacked him with kicks and punches, spat on him, and trampled on his hat. This is what happened to a rabbi of about 60 years old in broad daylight, shortly before 6 p.m., in Milan in the Bande Nere district, which is near the Jewish quarter, while he was waiting for the bus.
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The three, found shortly after by the Police, have already been identified and measures against them are imminent. The episode was made known by the president of the Jewish Community of Milan, Walker Meghnagi, who bluntly commented, “I am ashamed of my country for what happened, we have never seen anything so violent.” Solidarity from the institutions arrived immediately, with the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, who spoke of “a disturbing episode that cannot be underestimated. Violence and anti-Semitic hatred cannot find space in our society and must be firmly opposed, through the ascertainment of facts and identification of responsibilities.”
The man was at the bus stop in the late afternoon when three men, “seemingly of Arab origin,” as Meghnagi reported, began to bother and push him but he did not react.
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The three then “beat him up badly, something so violent has never happened before – the president of the Milanese Jewish community recounts -. They kicked and punched him, took off his hat, trampled on it and spat on him. They recognized he was Jewish by the way he was dressed.”
However, the rabbi managed to take a photo and even a video of the three men as they fled towards the Bande Nere metro station. He called the officers and then filed a complaint about what happened and went to the hospital to be examined. “Unfortunately, in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, we have witnessed a sort of ‘green light’ to anti-Jewish hatred – commented the director of the Jewish Brigara Museum Davide Romano -, which erupted even before Israel’s military reaction in Gaza. A poisonous climate that can no longer be tolerated.” From the Jewish Brigade comes “yet another heartfelt appeal to politics, and especially to a certain left: it is essential to immediately lower the tone.”
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