A dozen students from an exclusive high school here have been accused of writing anti-Semitic graffiti at the home of a Jewish classmate.
The students from the private school were suspended for a week.
A photograph of the expulsion notice sent to the students, citing “acts of racism and vandalism,” was published in the Rome daily II Messaggero.
The newspaper reported that the students, all enrolled in the French language Lycee Chateaubriand, attended a party with other teen-agers at the home of a Jewish classmate.
At the party, three students, and two former students destroyed a bathroom and scrawled racist slogans, including “Juden Raus,” meaning “Jews Out,” and “Blacks and Arabs Raus,” meaning “Blacks and Arabs out,” on the walls of a corridor and a bedroom.
School authorities were quoted as saying that they suspended the entire group of 12 students “for complicity in acts of racism and vandalism” because they had known who had committed the acts, but had kept silent about it.
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