(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Monday condemned the vandalism in Basovizza near the Slovenian border at the weekend of a monument to victims of the World War II-era massacres by Yugoslav forces.
“The desecration of the Basovizza foiba site was as thoughtless gesture which offends the memory of the victims,” Tajani said in a speech to commemorate the so-called ‘foibe’ massacres from 1943-1945 in which up to 15,000 Italians are thought to have been murdered.
“It is a gesture that not only an outrage to the war dead, but reopens painful wounds of the living,” Tajan went on.
“For this reason I want to underline, also on behalf of the government, the most severe condemnation for an intolerable and unjustifiable act.”
Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni on Saturday deplored the “repugnant inscriptions” scrawled in Serbian overnight between Friday and Saturday on the ground outside the Basovizza monument.
“Death to fascism, freedom to the peoples”, the graffiti reportedly reads.
