Far-right hardcore Lazio ultra
fans on Wednesday hung up a banner saying "Honour to Mussolini"
near the square in Milan where the Fascist dictator's body was
strung up upside down after his execution by partisans in 1945.
Some dozen 'Irreducibili' ultras unfurled the banner saying
"Honour to Mussolini Irr" near Piazzale Loreto, where
Mussolini's body was defaced by angry crowds along with those of
his mistress Claretta Petacci and some Fascist 'gerarchi'.
Lazio face AC Milan in the second leg of the Italian Cup
semi-final at the San Siro on Wednesday night.
Roberto Cenati, head of the Milan chapter of partisans
association ANPI, said "it's a crazy thing".
He said an ANPI member had alerted the group about the banner
"brought there by some 70 people who sang Fascist chants and
slogans and made Roman salutes".
The incident happened on the eve of Liberation day, when
Italy celebrates its liberation by the Allies from Fascism and
Nazism.
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