ALGEMEINER
by Joshua Levitt
May 27, 2014
Leading Italian political and cultural figures lined up at Rome’s Jewish Museum, which opened its doors to midnight on Monday to accommodate the thousands who wanted to express solidarity with the Jewish Museum of Brussels after four people, including two Israelis, were shot and killed by a lone gunman on Saturday.
Riccardo Pacifici, president of Rome’s Jewish community, said, “It’s time to show these rogues, these murderers, that we are not afraid, they do not intimidate us. We will march together and take them to jail,” according to Italy’s Il Messagero newspaper on Monday.
The newspaper reported that “many, many people” were in line at the museum, which was formerly the Great Synagogue, in the old Jewish “ghetto, in the heart of the capital.Youth, seniors, families and children, all waiting to learn the traditions of the Jewish culture and send a message of solidarity with the victims of Brussels.”
One of Italy’s political parties sent white flowers that were on display ”to be fraternally close to the Jewish community,” according to the accompanying card.
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