Democratic Party (PD) Secretary Elly
Schlein on Monday led opposition outrage at the Fascist salutes
made on Sunday by participants at a ceremony commemorating the
murder of two right-wing militants during Italy's 'Years of
Lead' of political violence in the 1970s and 80s.
The salutes were made during a ceremony recalling the Acca
Larentia massacre in which two members of the youth wing of the
neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), Franco Bigonzetti
and Francesco Ciavatta, aged 13 and 17, were shot dead,
allegedly by far left militants, outside the party's Rome
headquarters.
A third MSI youth wing member, Stefano Recchioni, 19, was
fatally injured by a stray bullet during ensuing clashes by
members of the youth wing, the Fronte della Gioventù, who rioted
after the deaths, and police.
Then Fronte della Gioventù leader Gianfranco Fini, later a
foreign minister in Silvio Berlusconi's first government in
1994, was wounded by a gas canister.
"Rome, January 7, 2024. And it seems like 1924," Schlein said on
social media in a post with a photo of the Fascist salutes.
"We will present a question in parliament to (Interior) Minister
(Matteo) Piantedosi.
"What happened is not acceptable.
"Neofascist organizations must be dissolved, as stated by the
Constitution".
The opposition called on Premier Giorgio Meloni and her Brothers
of Italy (FdI) party in particular, an heir to the MSI, to
condemn the Fascist salutes.
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