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NEWS FROM ITALY
Politician apologizes for
referring to Holocaust survivor
by her Auschwitz number
death camp in occupied Poland. Segre,
an outspoken critic of the far right and
an activist for preserving the memory of Holocaust victims, was in 2018 made senator for life — a distinction reserved for five notable presidential appointees among the Italian Senate’s 321 lawmakers.
Meroni’s supporters said he did not
mean to insult Segre but to point out that the persecution of Jews has parallels with some measures of the government’s policies to contain COVID-19, the Il Cittadino newspaper reported.
Meroni also wrote that he used Segre’s number because Facebook would have censored his remark if he named her.
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ANSA
MILAN – A local politician in Italy apologized for referring to a well-known Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre by her concentration camp tattoo number in a Facebook comment criticizing her support for COVID-19 public health measures.
Fabio Meroni, a member of the city council of Lissone, a suburb of Milan, who represents the far-right Northern League, wrote in a comment on an article about Segre’s public support for the government’s campaign for encouraging people to get vaccinated: “all that was missing [in the vaccine debate] was ... 75190.”
Following the post, he received a torrent of condemnations and apologized in a new post on Saturday.
“I want to apologize to Senator Liliana Segre, it was not my intention in any way
‘Most important' Italian dinosaur site found near Trieste
Liliana Segre
to offend you and if one day I will have the honor of being able to speak to you, I will personally explain my thoughts,” he wrote.
The Nazis tattooed the number on Segre’s arm when she 13 at the Auschwitz
ANSA
ROME – Researchers say that they have found the "most important" Italian dinosaur fossil site, near the northeastern port city of Trieste.
The site at Villaggio del Pescatore contains at least seven new dinosaur fossils including one virtually complete, said the paleontologists.
The international research group, led by Federico Fanti of Bologna University, has published its findings in the journal Scientific Reports.
The dinosaur is Tethyshadros insularis, an herbivore that lived 80 million years ago and reached up to 17 feet in length.
The first exemplar, dubbed Antonio, was discovered 30 years ago.
"Already, 30 years ago, the Villaggio
del Pescatore site brought to light an extraordinary fossil remains, a practically complete individual of Tethyshadros insularis," Fanti told ANSA.
"But it was a single find, like all the others done on Italian territory. Now for the first time we have a whole group, a site where we have many individuals and we can excavate to analyze and compare their remains".
The area, a former limestone quarry, has unearthed various remains; of seven to 11 individuals including a particularly complete one, the researchers have dubbed Bruno.
After comparing the new remains
with those of the first dinosaur Antonio, the experts have also realized that the
first remains in fact belonged to a young individual and not a “dwarf” species, typical of islands, as had hitherto been believed.
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