Deputy Premier and Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday accused partisans association
ANPI of denying the 'Foibe' massacres and said its public
funding should be reconsidered.
He was commenting amid a furore over a convention organized
by ANPI that is set to be held in Parma on February 10 during
which a controversial video 'La Foiba di Basovizza: un Falso
Storico' (the Basovizza foiba: a Historical Falsehood) is
scheduled to be screened.
The Foibe is the name given to the mass murder of Italian
people in Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia, mostly by
Yugoslav Partisans, during and after the Second World War.
"It is necessary to revise contributions to associations like
ANPI that deny the massacres perpetrated by Communists after the
war," said League leader Salvini.
ANPI President Carla Nespolo said Salvini's "threats" did not
frighten her or her organisation.
She said "the Foibe were a national tragedy that cover a very
broad period of time and must be addressed without any
ambiguity, by putting the facts into context".
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