Fight against antisemitism in Italy, Pecoraro is the new national coordinator

The former Prefect of Rome Giuseppe Pecoraro was appointed as the new national coordinator for the fight against antisemitism. His nomination was announced by the President of the Council of Ministers Giorgia Meloni on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day with a note which thanked the former coordinator Milena Santerini “for her valuable work over the last years” and wishes Prefect Pecoraro “all the best with his new role”. So the UCEI President Noemi Di Segni commented on the news: “The appointment of Prefect Giuseppe Pecoraro as new national coordinator for the fight against anti-Semitism is an important signal that comes to us from Palazzo Chigi in these intense hours dedicated to the Memory. We thank Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for this, expressing our best wishes to the new coordinator for fruitful work with respect to the many challenges that characterize antisemitism in Italy today”.
Di Segni further states: “The communities collectively express deep gratitude towards who preceded him, Professor Milena Santerini, for the commitment made in recent years for the launch of the national strategy, the guidelines for the schools and, eventually, the agreement for the memory network with the State Railways. Once again, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities is ready to get to work and provide the new coordinator with every useful support”.
UCEI President had previously addressed the Prime Minister inviting her to express herself on this appointment in a note defining the coordinator as “an essential safeguard, which must be further strengthened, so that the commitment to a responsible Memory regarding the Holocaust and the crimes of Nazi-fascism would produce significant effects in Italian society, especially among young people”.
The position was left vacant by the past executive past but the mandate, added Di Segni, “due to its fundamental function – also due to the role that Italy plays in the European and international context – cannot be left in a void”.
Born in Palma Campania in 1950, Pecoraro was the prefect of Prato and Benevento and commissioner for the waste emergency in Rome as well as attorney general of the Football Federation. He also served in the Department of Public Security of the Ministry of the Interior, first as head of the secretariat of the Chief of Police and later as deputy chief of Police in charge of coordinating and planning activities. In the last political elections, he was a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in the Campania 1 single-member constituency with Brothers of Italy but was not elected.