(ANSA) - Empoli, January 19 - A Tuscan mayor got an envelope
containing two bullets and a swastika in the mail Friday.
Brenda Barnini got the intimidatory letter after the town was
earlier this week awarded Italy's gold medal for the WWII
Resistance against the Fascists and Nazis.
She condemned "the new Fascist right, xenophobic populism and
political forces that sow rancour and hatred".
Barnini said: "you don't scare me because my city is stronger
than your ignorance".
Tuscany Governor Enrico Rossi called the incident "an ignoble
gesture".
He said it came from "those who over the last few years have
only been able to blow on the fire of fear, using words of
hate".
Mayor was sent bullets, swastika
After Empoli gets award for WWII Resistance