Swastikas found on walls of school in Rome, days after antisemitic poster appears in Milan

The walls of the Mamiani High School in Rome have been targeted once again with offensive vandalism, with a swastika found on the school’s property.

The message of the graffiti read “Rome is a Nazi!”, and it was surrounded by swastikas. The graffiti has been removed.

The school’s Principal, Tiziana Sallusti, reported the incident to the authorities after students discovered the inscriptions on the morning of 22nd September.

The wall was recently repainted following a similar incident. There have also been previous reports of fascist graffiti, as well as violence among young people of opposing political factions, within Rome. The Principal stated: “It has already happened in the past – this is not an offence to the Mamiani, but to Rome and Italians.” A warning has now been issued to all students.

Local police immediately opened an investigation, and there have been calls for the immediate instillation of a video system to protect the institution and its students.

The incident comes days after antisemitic posters appeared in the northern Italian city of Milan.’

The posters, which were not entirely legible, claimed that the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a popular and baseless antisemitic conspiracy theory.

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