Switching off the Colosseum’s lights is a traditional form of protest in Rome. In 2012, Rome turned off the lights in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the massacre of two anti-Mafia judges. Hungary’s ambassador to Italy has been invited to the Colosseum event, which the president of Rome’s Jewish community, Riccardo Pacifici, will attend.
'Today, a European country is living the nightmare of anti-Semitism, jumping back to the past, taking us back to the 1930s,' Mr. Pacifici said. He said Jobbik lawmakers attend Parliament sessions wearing brown shirts and uniforms resembling those worn by a paramilitary wing of the German Nazi Party in the 1920s and 1930s. He also said party members tend to march in some Hungarian villages in a paramilitary fashion."