Representatives of Spain’s Jewish community demanded that a local politician apologize for dressing up as Adolf Hitler at a Halloween party.
Toni Rodriguez, a representative of the ruling Popular Party on the council of the municipality of Gandia near Valencia in eastern Spain, posed for pictures with friends while in costume on October 31.
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, or FCJE, on Tuesday wrote to the municipality, to Rodriguez and to the party’s regional representatives “to ask that they issue a public apology,” FCJE’s communications director, Maria Royo, told JTA.
“We complained about the behavior of this council member. We have not received an answer so far,” she said.
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Rodriguez’s spokesman said his boss dressed up as Hitler “not to celebrate the person but to ridicule him and show him as a person connected with horror,” the Spanish-language Jewish news website itongadol.com reported based on a report by the AJN news agency.
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