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ROME (AP) - Italy's president has condemned threats against Rome's Jewish community in recent days, including the delivery of packages containing pig heads, as a `'miserable provocation".
President Giorgio Napolitano said Monday during Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations that recent insults to the Jewish community are `'comparable only to the repugnant material in those packages."
Police on Monday said they have detained two men, ages 33 and 47, on suspicion of instigating racial hatred through anti-Semitic graffiti, including denial of the Holocaust, near the main judicial offices in Rome. Authorities say the men belong to different far-right groups.
No arrests have been announced for the delivery of the pig heads.
The national association of Italian magistrates also condemned the `'outrageous and grave" acts against Rome's Jewish community.
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