Rome’s mayor condemned “any form of anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination.”
Mayor Gianni Alemanno made his remarks Sunday during a march commemorating the 65th anniversary of the World War II deportation of Roman Jews to Auschwitz.
Some 8,000 Jews were rounded up and deported on Oct. 16, 1943.
Alemanno, who began his political career in a neo-fascist youth group, also condemned the 1938 anti-Semitic laws imposed by the fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.
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