The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office
has opened an investigation in connection with the vandalism
that occurred last week at late Communist party (PCI) leader
Enrico Berlinguer's grave in the Prima Porta cemetery in the
Italian capital, the third such act in two months, judicial
sources said Wednesday.
A report by the Digos special branch police on this latest and
third episode in little more than two months has been sent to
prosecutors at Piazzale Clodio.
Centre left opposition politicians have decried the incidents as
alleged evidence of an "ugly climate in the country" while
Berlinguers' children have described them as "political acts".
The Democratic Party and others have cited the Berlinguer tomb
vandalism alongside this week's desecration of a plaque in a
Roman wood marking where the body of Giacomo Matteotti, a
Socialist critic of Mussolini, was found in 1924 after his
assassination by Fascist thugs.
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