Liliana Segre: “Willy is gaining absolute barbarism”



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Liliana Segre, senator for life, Senato della Repubblica and survivor of Auschwitz attends a ceremony to remember the victims of the Holocaust at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, January 29, 2020 (AP Photo / Riccardo Pareggiani)

“Terrible. The beating of that child not only shocked me, but also awakened terrible torments and memories. I found it an absolute barbarism.” So says Liliana Segre, interviewed by La Stampa, about the death of Willy, the 21-year-old Italian-Cape Verdean years of Paliano assassinated in a brawl in Colleferro.

Willy’s death – continues the senator who turns 90 today – “scared me a lot. It was like a personal defeat, it made me think that everything I tried to do against violence and hatred was of little use in the end. If there are still people around who think about solving their personal defeats by hitting others, we are still in a society far from civilization ”.



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