A Carabiniere who told a pro-Palestinian marcher in Milan Saturday that Sergio Mattarella"is not my president" after she challenged him on the Italianhead of State's call for Israel not to deny Palestinianstatehood was "immediately" moved to a "non-operational post"Monday and will face disciplinary proceedings, the paramilitary corps said.
The cop's statements that "I didn't vote for him" was captured on video by 93-year-old historic antifascist militant FrancaCaffa who had asked the officer, when police blocked themarchers, "what did Mattarella say?".
Mattarella had said that Israel's right to security and self-defense should not be used as an alibi to deny Palestinians their own state, in the longstanding internationally backed two-state solution to the Middle East crisis that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said will never happen on his watch by he.
On Saturday, many Italians marched for the Palestinian cause and to denounce alleged genocide in Gaza defying a ban on the marches amid fears of antisemitic incidents on Holocaust Remembrace Day.
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