Nazi threat to EU Justice Commissioner

EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini has received a threatening letter posted in Britain warning him that new anti-racism and anti-Semitism rules would not stop Nazism in Europe.

“Unfortunately I received a letter threatening me,” Frattini said in Brussels today.

“But let me tell you it will not undermine at all my full determination to fight against all kinds, all forms of manifestations of racism, intolerance, and violence.”

EU officials said the letter was mailed from Britain and was written in bad Italian.

Italian newspaper La Stampa published a photocopy of the letter today.

“You are banning the swastika?” the letter asks. ”Political pygmies like you will never win against national socialism.” It did not include an immediate physical threat.

The warning letter to Frattini comes after he suggested the EU look at banning the use of Nazi symbols after Prince Harry wore a swastika armband to a costume party.