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.
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