This week in the northwestern Italian town of Varallo, located in a series of valleys in the Piedmont region known as Valsesia, the town mayor has received an anonymous threatening note from somebody identifying themselves as the "Anti-Zionist Movement". Written in stencil, the note refers to the settlement of 70 Israeli families in the area and threatens to "start shooting" if any more arrive. a bullet was also enclosed in the envelope.
The article below from La Stampa is pretty self-explanatory and is translated by Fousesquawk. I will have more to write on this in the very near future.
"This is the only warning before shooting," an envelope with a bullet addressed to Mayor Bondetti
In the message, the self-described "Anti-Zionist Movement" contests the presence of Israeli families who have been established for years in Varallo.
-By Andrea Bucci and Francesca Rivano
19 June 2026 at 0:500
A yellow envelope containing a letter apparently written in stencil headed, "Fuck Israel" and a 40 caliber Smith and Wesson bullet. "This is the only warning before we begin shooting". The threatening letter was delivered yesterday to the mayor of Varallo, Pietro Bondetti, signed by a self-described "Anti-Zionist Movement". Aside from the first citizen of the Valsesia town, also targeted is Ugo Luzzati, who, through his "Baita Project" in 2023, brought about 70 Israeli families to settle in Valsesia.
The envelope was delivered to the town hall during the late morning along with regular mail. On the sheet of paper, 16 lines oozing hatred, written in block letters and in ungrammatical Italian, implicate, aside from Bondetti and Luzzati, "mayors of Valsesia", accusing them of favoring the settlement of "Nazi Zionists" in the area. In the letter is also written: " We will not permit the transfer of more families".
"A very serious and unexpected event," comments Bondetti, who immediately filed a complaint with the Carabinieri station. A file has been opened with the prosecutor's office on the sending of the letter by persons unknown at this time. Public Prosecutor, Mariaserena Iozzo, under the direction of the head of the judicial office, Ilaria Calo, believes it is a crime of "threat". For now, there is caution at the courthouse. In the coming hours, the Dda, the district Anti-Mafia office, will be brought in since the victim of the threat is the mayor.
But who could have an issue with the Israeli families? It is a mystery that the investigators will have to solve. Prior to this, in Varallo and in all of the Valsesia, nobody would have ever complained about the arrival of these new residents. On the contrary. Now, however, someone has apparently decided to act, raising the level and spreading hate.
'The arrival of the Israeli families," comments the mayor of Varallo," is a very positive element for our territory. Those who have chosen to live in Valesia, have acquired and renovated residences abandoned for years and brought villages back to life that were depopulating. The children attend our schools, and, personally, I have never had the sense of tensions or problems." Profoundly embittered and worried about the incident, the mayor has shared the received threat, personally contacting Luzzati and the realtor who is handling the arrival of other families on property matters. They are people of every age, who often work from remote and who prefer an area in which one can live in the middle of nature.
"In these years, I have never felt myself the object of a threat," says Luzzati, born in Genoa, who arrived in Valsesia after having long lived in Israel. "This letter, certainly worrying, is absurd also in its content," he adds. "For a Zionist Jew to leave Israel is a betrayal. (Such a person ) would never relocate, not in Valsesia, nor anywhere else."
Driving the families who have chosen Varallo and its villages, on the contrary, is the search for a place to live without the tensions, the political pressures, and the wars that bloody the Middle East. "In the Valsesia territory, there are currently 70 families," Luzzati adds. "People who are integrating themselves into the local community and who, for the most part, are not even practicing from the religious point of view.
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