Genoa – He threatened to kill him with a screwdriver and insulted him for being a “Jew”. This is the nightmare that Rabbi Chaim Fabrizio Cipriani, 55, experienced this afternoon in Via Lumlini in the historic center of Genoa.
He had to ask for police intervention to protect himself from a man who attacked him while he was walking down the street precisely because he was wearing a kippah.
The attacker also pulled a screwdriver from his pocket and shouted at him: “Go away, you dirty Zionist bastard, otherwise I will open you.” The rabbi himself immediately called for help. Digos patrols and the general prevention office of the police headquarters intervened on the scene. The officers arrested the man and escorted him to the police station.
The attacker, a 58-year-old resident of Genoa, was arrested for aggravated threats and also charged with aggravated racial slurs under the Mancino Act. “It was really a bad experience – explains the rabbi. In the city of Genoa there is a bad climate of hatred towards us. And what happened today is proof of that. I wasn’t afraid but I am furious about what happened.”
