'Miss Hitler' among 12 facing trial for anti-Semitic posts

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 28 - A young woman from Sicily who won an online 'Miss Hitler' contest on a Russian social network in 2019 is among 12 Italians facing a possible trial for allegedly posting anti-Semitic propaganda denying the existence of the Holocaust and calling the Nazi gas chambers "the biggest lie in history", sources said Friday.
    The 29-year-old woman, Francesca Rizzi, is part of a network active across Italy calling itself The Roman Aryan Order.
    Prosecutors have wound up their probe against the 12, normally a premise for indictment requests, and posit charges of criminal conspiracy to spread propaganda and instigating ethnic and religious discrimination.
    Six of the 12 , who are aged 26 to 62, live in Lazio, including four in Rome and its surrounding province, one in Latina and one in Frosinone, while three live in Sardinia, another one in Calabria, one in Abruzzo and one in Lombardy.
    Their posts included "the Jewish menace will only be eliminated when all the world's Jews will cease to exist" as well as invective against migrants like "sinking all the NGO ships in the Mediterranean and knocking down all the churches, synagogues and mosques would be the solution to some of our problems".
    (ANSA).