

Questo è uno screenshot del profilo facebook di Stefano Altinier, consigliere comunale della Lega a Gorizia. @JOI_JewOpInc @romaebraica @mariomieliroma @Arcigay @gaycenter_it @ugei_it pic.twitter.com/z0b54UwJeP 1 settembre 2019.Questo è uno screenshot del profilo facebook di Stefano Altinier, consigliere comunale della Lega a Gorizia. @emanuelefiano September 1, 2019

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A member of the city council of an Italian town listed “antisemitic” as his religious views on Facebook, Italian media reported on Sunday.Stefano Altinier, 35, was elected in the city council of Gorizia, North East of the Italian peninsula, in 2017. He belongs to the right-wing party League, whose leader Matteo Salvini recently triggered a political crisis , pulling the plug from League’s coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Altinier deleted the entry on Friday after being alerted that someone had spotted his profile. However, screenshots of his Facebook page started to circulate online.“The opposition is trying to discredit me in a boorish way. I have always thought that social media do not reflect reality. Some people claim to exercise a certain profession or to be married, and it happens not to be true. I have never been antisemitic, I have even attended a Hanukkah celebration once, and I’m fascinated by the history and tradition of this people,” Altinier said.Altinier also claimed that he was “a teenager” when he compiled his Facebook profile identifying his religious views as antisemitic, “ten or fifteen years ago.”“The word was meant as a joke,” he further said. “I apologize if I hurt someone’s sensitivity. Today there is no more trace of what I wrote.”