US EditionVatican investigates Swiss Guard after allegations of an antisemitic incident in St. Peter’s Square
- Monday, the Vatican said it is investigating a possible antisemitic incident involving a member of the Pontifical Swiss Guard at a Vatican City entrance.
- During the papal audience, which marked the anniversary of a 1965 declaration on the church's relations with Jews and other non-Christians, the incident occurred at the entrance to St. Peter's Square.
- According to a preliminary reconstruction, Govrin described a guard hissed `the Jews` and made a spitting gesture as she and a colleague approached a guard post.
- Pope Leo XIV said `the Church does not tolerate antisemitism and fights it`, applauded during the papal audience attended by an international Jewish delegation.
- The Pontifical Swiss Guard emphasized it is the world's oldest military corps protecting the Pope and reaffirmed its commitment to dignity and non-discrimination, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
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The military body in charge of protecting the pope opened an internal investigation after an Israeli author complained that she had been invectivated by one of her sentries because of her religion.
A visit by a Jewish delegation to the Pope in Rome has caused an uproar after a member of the Swiss Guard allegedly made a spitting motion towards the group at one of the entrances to St. Peter's Square.
One of the members of the army in charge of the Pope's protection "openly" whistled two Jewish women and "minished to spit" in their direction.
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