'Charlie Kirk' Threat Against Italy's Meloni Attributed to Palestine Activists

Police are investigating after an apparent death threat was daubed onto the wall of a Turin railway station during an hours-long occupation of the interchange by anti-Israel activists, the latest manifestation in a days-long action by Antifa and other left-wing groups in support of Palestine.

The Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni said she was honoured to be compared with assassinated political activist Charlie Kirk after Palestine protesters wrote “Meloni: Come Kirk” [‘Meloni: Like Kirk’] on the wall of Torino Porta Susa station in Turin.

The threat is particularly insidious given Italy’s long history of political violence including the ‘ Years of Lead ‘, which has been particularly acute by general European standards over the past half-century, and the recent political assassinat