Pro-Palestinian stumbling stone put at ANSA Bolzano office

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 7 - A stumbling stone, the metal plates inserted into streets and pavements to commemorate Jewish WWII deportees, was placed in front of the ANSA office in Bolzano overnight but this time it did not mark a Jewish deportee but instead the suffering and "genocide" of Palestinians since the inception of Israel in 1948.
    The small clay plaque said "here we are planning the deaths of Palestinian men, women and children, victims of genocide and persecution since 1948. 13,000 children killed by bombs and hunger. We had sworn, never again".
    The plaque was glued into place in Piazza delle Erbe alongside a traditional stumbling stone commemorating a Bolzano victim of the Holocaust, Auguste Freud, who worked in the building now housing ANSA and who was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1944, where she was murdered on May 23 that year.
    The stumbling stone is situated at the entrance to the office of Italy's leading news agency. (ANSA).