An 89-year-old who survived the Holocaust has been placed under police protection after withstanding a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse online.
After the vote, Segre has reported receiving 200 hate messaged per day on social media. On Thursday, Italian authorities considered the threats against her to be serious enough to assign the senator two policemen to escort and protect her at all times.
Salvini, who was Interior Minister until August, has become famous for his hard-line stance on immigration. Despite being branded a racist by his detractors, polls show that the League has become the most popular party in Italy.
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