A newly elected local councillor for
Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI)
party has apologised after being accused of making fun of the
Holocaust in a joke about the current high temperatures in
Italy.
In a video that is circulating online, Giuseppe Marasco, a
councillor in the southern city of Manfredonia, says "we are
used to cremation furnaces" as a political event when someone
apologises for taking off their jacket because of the heat.
Opposition parties said the comments ridiculed the Shoah and
called on Meloni to intervene.
"I absolutely did not intend to link that sentence to the
tragedy of the Holocaust, I only intended to refer to the high
temperatures in our region," Marasco said.
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