Italian police investigate attack on 12-year-old Jewish boy

MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities in Tuscany are investigating an attack on a 12-year-old Jewish boy who said teenagers kicked him, hit him on the head and hurled antisemitic abuse at him. The boy’s parents reported the weekend attack, in the town of Campiglia Marittima near Livorno, on Tuesday, according to a statement from town officials. Florence daily The Nation reported that the assailants told the boy: “You need to be quiet because you are Jewish,” and used other demeaning and insulting language. They also said “you should die in the oven,” a reference to Nazi death camps where Jews were murdered and their remains burned. The boy’s father told the paper that nobody intervened to help his son.