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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Italian police identify 16 Lazio fans behind Anne Frank photos
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleItalian police have identified 16 people believed to be involved in posting anti-Semitic pictures of Anne Frank in a Roma jersey during a soccer game, according to media reports.
Police examined video footage of Sunday night’s Serie A game between Lazio and Cagliari at the Stadio Olimpico when home fans defaced glass barriers with anti-Semitic graffiti and images of Frank.
The Jewish teenager, who died in Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in 1945, was depicted wearing a jersey of their hated city rivals.
Three of those identified are underage — two aged 16-17 and a third aged 13. They are being investigated for inciting racial hatred.
The images have whipped up a storm in Italian football with the Roman club announcing they also intend to take youngsters every year to visit the former Nazi camp at Auschwitz, in Poland.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.