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Vatican probes Swiss Guard over alleged antisemitic gesture

By JNS Staff

A recent alleged antisemitic incident involving a Swiss Guard watchman at the Vatican seems to have featured a “disagreement over a photograph at the service post,” a Holy See official said Tuesday.

The Vatican News quoted Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, as saying that this conclusion emerged from an internal investigation by his office of claims that a Pontifical Swiss Guard soldier was overheard speaking about Jews at an event and made a spitting gesture at a Jewish woman who confronted him about it.

The woman, Michal Govrin, told the Austrian publication Kathpress that the guard said “the Jews” in French, and when another woman confronted him on it, he denied having mentioned Jews and made a spitting gesture at the direction of both women…

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