Threats, insults, unrepeatable comments were addressed via social media, once again, to life senator Liliana Segre, who was vaccinated at the Fatebenefratelli in Milan.
Just the administration of the vaccine - on the first day of the Lombard campaign for the over 80s - sparked hatred online against the 90-year-old Milanese, who survived Auschwitz.
Scrolling through the comments under the post where the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana - who welcomed her in the hospital together with the councilor for welfare Letizia Moratti - thanks the senator for her testimony, it seems to enter a Dante group dedicated to banality of evil.
From those who complain because 'she yes and my grandmother no', to those who wish her the worst adverse reactions, there has been a continuous anti-Semitic comments on social media.
"We go to this meeting with confidence because it will truly be the only way that each of us has to fight this great enemy" said the senator in the video posted on Fontana's Facebook page.
"It seems to me that this time, against an invisible enemy, we have so few weapons that being vaccinated will mean being more easily invited by our children, by our grandchildren, by our friends who are afraid to meet us so as not to pass this terrible virus. It seems to me a great opportunity to which we all have to respond, thankful that it can be done "added the survivor of Auschwitz.
"I am 90 years old and I will be vaccinated, just as everyone over 80 will be called to get vaccinated. I strongly believe in vaccination, it is something that I have always followed all my life, since I was a child, then when I traveled. my children have been vaccinated and my grandchildren have also been vaccinated. For me - concluded Segre - it is nothing new ".
But for her haters, vaccination becomes a pretext for an avalanche of insults and threats, with someone even wishing her death.
It is since November 2019, after a series of threats received via the web, that the senator for life has indeed lived under guard.
But this does not mean she renounces to bring, despite her advanced age, her testimony of commitment: "A life that is an example for everyone. Even in the simplest gestures. Thanks to Liliana Segre" the Minister of Health publicly honored her. , Roberto Speranza.
Even the Milanese Democratic Party and many others have expressed their solidarity, as well as many on social networks, where it is not only hatred that dominates.
"Ignorance and fanaticism must be condemned with determination, the violent denounced and isolated", wrote on twitter Mariastella Gelmini, minister for regional affairs, expressing "sincere solidarity and closeness" to the senator.
