Italian police identify man suspected of sending pig heads to synagogue

Police say that the 29-year-old suspect wished to found an anti-Semitic movement.

By JTA
TEMPIO MAGGIORE: Rome’s Great Synagogue 311 (photo credit: Arthur Wolak)
TEMPIO MAGGIORE: Rome’s Great Synagogue 311
(photo credit: Arthur Wolak)
Italian police have identified a far-right activist suspected of sending boxes containing severed pig heads to Rome’s main synagogue, the Israeli embassy and a Rome museum with a Holocaust exhibition.
Italian media reports identified the man as Ernesto Morosini, 29. Police told reporters that the suspect wanted to found an anti-Semitic movement and had sent the macabre packages to gain support.
Police have opened an investigation against him for instigation of racial hatred.
Rome Jewish Community President Riccardo Pacifici issued a statement thanking the forces of order for “the speed and promptness” of “a job well done.”
The pig heads, delivered by a courier service, were discovered January 24, just days before International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27.