Liliana Segre: "Astonished and disappointed by abstentions. Mine was an ethical appeal"

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"Mine was an ethical appeal that spoke to the consciences, to the souls and to the brains of the entire Italian political class, without distinction between right and left. I took it for granted that the Senate of the Republic would welcome him as a fundamental principle of civilization is welcomed. My feeling before abstentions? Astonishment ". Liliana Segre, life senator, was interviewed by Repubblica on the Commission she proposed.

"But my biggest surprise – he points out – was the quote by Orwell made by Salvini, when he compared the commission to the body of a police state for the imposition of the single thought". In your opinion, is racism something you can argue about? "No, having tried it on my skin – he answers -. I thought that on racial discrimination there was no room for distinction. But evidently times have changed ”.

And to Salvini and Meloni he replies that "aggressive nationalism" is something different from patriotism. I can very well say that I love my country very much but I suffered the consequences of the nationalism practiced by fascism ".

Interviewed also by La Stampa, Segre underlines: "I think it was a sort of password to which the whole right-wing group decided to adapt, abstaining. Personally, many of them might not have abstained and came to show it to me, unbelievable "and" when the motion passed then, many, but really many, got up to applaud ". "Many senators abstained then came to shake my hand," the senator added.