Family Minister Eugenia Roccella on Monday called Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre to clear the air after the former was quoted as saying that Italian school trips to Auschwitz are organized to link anti-Semitism to Fascism, sources said on Tuesday.
Segre expressed indignation at the comments.
Roccella, a member of Premier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, was quoted as saying trips to Auschwitz "served to tell us that anti-Semitism was about the time of a precise era: fascism" and that this is why "they were encouraged and promoted".
Roccella said on Sunday that her comments had been misconstrued and was ready to report to the parliamentary commission for combating intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism and instigation to hatred and violence that was set by Segre in order to clarify them.
