(AFP) Three people have been arrested after an attack on two Jewish tourists in Venice earlier this week, local police said Thursday as Italian politicians strongly condemned the incident.
“Two foreign Jewish tourists were surrounded and beaten by a group of 10 attackers,” Venice’s deputy mayor in charge of tourism, Simone Venturini, wrote on social media.
It occurred a few days ago on the Strada Nova, a thoroughfare near the Rialto Bridge, he said, calling it a “shameful anti-Semitic attack.”
Tourism Minister Daniela Santanche wrote on X that the attack had been committed by “a dozen North Africans shouting ‘Free Palestine.'”
