Lazio facing disciplinary action over Anne Frank stickers
Italian Football Federation order club to attend hearing after supporters spread anti-Semitic images of Holocaust victim after a match last month
Lazio have been ordered to attend a disciplinary hearing by the Italian Football Federation after fans last month spread anti-Semitic images featuring Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Following their victory over Cagliari on October 22, Lazio fans placed stickers around the Stadio Olimpico showing a mocked-up image of Frank, the young diarist who died in a concentration camp during World War II, wearing the shirt of city rivals Roma.
In a statement on Tuesday, the FIGC said the actions of the fans, “by its clear anti-Semitic intent constitutes discriminatory behaviour.”
No date was given for the hearing.
Two days after the stickers first appeared, the FIGC announced that a passage from Frank’s diary would be read aloud before matches at all levels of Italian football that week.
Lazio’s players wore an image of Frank on their shirt when they played away at Bologna that week, while club president Claudio Lotito said he would organise an annual trip to the former concentration camp at Auschwitz to teach Lazio fans about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Thank you for helping to make Jewish News the leading source of news and opinion for the UK Jewish community. Today we're asking for your invaluable help to continue putting our community first in everything we do.
For as little as £5 a month you can help sustain the vital work we do in celebrating and standing up for Jewish life in Britain.
Jewish News holds our community together and keeps us connected. Like a synagogue, it’s where people turn to feel part of something bigger. It also proudly shows the rest of Britain the vibrancy and rich culture of modern Jewish life.
You can make a quick and easy one-off or monthly contribution of £5, £10, £20 or any other sum you’re comfortable with.
100% of your donation will help us continue celebrating our community, in all its dynamic diversity...
Engaging
Being a community platform means so much more than producing a newspaper and website. One of our proudest roles is media partnering with our invaluable charities to amplify the outstanding work they do to help us all.
Celebrating
There’s no shortage of oys in the world but Jewish News takes every opportunity to celebrate the joys too, through projects like Night of Heroes, 40 Under 40 and other compelling countdowns that make the community kvell with pride.
Pioneering
In the first collaboration between media outlets from different faiths, Jewish News worked with British Muslim TV and Church Times to produce a list of young activists leading the way on interfaith understanding.
Campaigning
Royal Mail issued a stamp honouring Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton after a Jewish News campaign attracted more than 100,000 backers. Jewish Newsalso produces special editions of the paper highlighting pressing issues including mental health and Holocaust remembrance.
Easy access
In an age when news is readily accessible, Jewish News provides high-quality content free online and offline, removing any financial barriers to connecting people.
Voice of our community to wider society
The Jewish News team regularly appears on TV, radio and on the pages of the national press to comment on stories about the Jewish community. Easy access to the paper on the streets of London also means Jewish News provides an invaluable window into the community for the country at large.
We hope you agree all this is worth preserving.
