A reporter and a photojournalist
for L'Espresso magazine were attacked by far-right militants on
Monday while covering the commemoration in Rome of the victims
of a 1978 attack against far-right activists, the online edition
of the weekly reports.
Reporter Federico Marconi and photographer Paolo Marchetti on
Monday morning were "kicked and slapped" by members of the
neo-fascist movement "Avanguardia Nazionale and the head of
Forza Nuova Roma", the Roman chapter of the extremist party, at
the Verano cemetery in Rome, L'Espresso said.
"The assailants included the Roman head of Forza Nuova
Giuliano Castellino", the magazine reported, although he is
"under special surveillance" and was not supposed to attend the
event to commemorate Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco Ciavatta,
members of the now dissolved neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale
Italiano party who were killed on January 7, 1978.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini responded to the incident by
saying "those who beat people up should go to prison."
He said he wanted to know why one of the assailants was free
despite being supposedly under special surveillance.
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