ANPI contributions must be revised-Salvini

(ANSA) - Rome, February 4 - Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Monday accused partisans association ANPI of denying the 'Foibe' massacres and said its public funding should be reconsidered. He was commenting amid a furore over a convention organized by ANPI that is set to be held in Parma on February 10 during which a controversial video 'La Foiba di Basovizza: un Falso Storico' (the Basovizza foiba: a Historical Falsehood) is scheduled to be screened. The Foibe is the name given to the mass murder of Italian people in Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia, mostly by Yugoslav Partisans, during and after the Second World War.
    "It is necessary to revise contributions to associations like ANPI that deny the massacres perpetrated by Communists after the war," said League leader Salvini.
    ANPI President Carla Nespolo said Salvini's "threats" did not frighten her or her organisation.
    She said "the Foibe were a national tragedy that cover a very broad period of time and must be addressed without any ambiguity, by putting the facts into context".