A Coca Cola bottling plant whose chief stockholders are two Jewish brothers went up in flames last night following a bomb explosion. Anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on the walls of the building in Ora, near Bolanzo. Firemen who fought the blaze for nearly two hours estimated the damage at several thousand dollars.
The walls were smeared with swastikas, stars of David and the words “Juden,” “Long Live Hitler,” “cursed Jews” and ” Coca Cola equals Israel.” The bombing was the latest in a series of isolated attacks on Jews and Jewish property in Italy since the mas- sacre of Palestinians in west Beirut last month. A bomb destroyed the entrance to the main synagogue in Milan several nights ago. A week earlier, the Michelangelo Hotel in Milan refused to cater a Bar Mitzvah party because the local waiters union said it was too dangerous.
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