The State attorney's office in Rome
will open an investigation into a ceremony held Tuesday in the
southern Rome street of Acca Larentia to mark the anniversary of
the 1978 murder of two neofascist youths which was attended by
over 1,000 members of far-right groups including the neo-Fascist
CasaPound, judicial sources said Wednesday.
Prosecutors are waiting for the official reports to be delivered
by the Digos anti-terror police and by Carabinieri officials
regarding the demonstration during which hundreds of far-right
activists the made Fascist salute, the sources said.
State attorneys will open an investigation for the alleged
violation of the 1993 anti-fascist Mancino law, named after
then-Interior Minister Nicola Mancino, which permits the
prosecution of individuals for "incitement to violence" for a
broad range of hate crimes, and of the 1952 Scelba Law against
apology for Fascism and attempting to restore the Fascist party.
On December 18 last year, the State attorney's office in Rome
closed an investigation into another demonstration staged on
January 7 last year by far-right militants who made Fascist
salutes in which 31 people identified during the commemoration
risk to be indicted for violating the Mancino and Scelba laws.
The annual Acca Larentia ceremonies mark the anniversary of the
1978 murder of two neofascist youths allegedly by far-left
militants and the fatal shooting, possibly by police, of a third
neofascist youth.
In the massacre on January 7, 1978, two members of nefascist
party Italian Social Movement MSI's youth wing Fronte della
Gioventù, Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco Ciavatta, aged 18 and
19, were shot dead, allegedly by far left militants, outside the
party's Rome headquarters in the street named after a Roman
goddess.
A third MSI youth wing member, Stefano Recchioni, 19, was
fatally injured by a stray bullet during ensuing clashes by
members of the Fronte della Gioventù who rioted after the
deaths, and police.
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