Italy ‘slave of Jewish bankers’ says Pitchfork spokesman

(ANSA) – Rome, December 13 – A spokesman for the anti-austerity Pitchfork Movement, now in its fifth day of street protests blocking commerce, said Italy was a “slave of bankers like the Rothschilds” and said that “five of the world’s six richest people are Jews”. “It’s curious,” added Andrea Zunino in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica printed Friday. “It’s something I need to figure out”. His remarks were met with sharp rebuke from Italy’s Jewish communities. “Such words recall those…that in the history of our continent have brought about the deaths of millions of citizens,” said Riccardo Pacifici, president of Rome’s Jewish community. In his interview, he also praised Beppe Grillo, head of Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, and Hungarian Premier Viktor Orb