New street art for April 25 takes a dig at La Russa

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 24 - A piece of street art appeared in Rome on Monday, the eve of the day when the country commemorates the liberation from Fascism and Nazi occupation in 1945, overtly chastising Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa for recent highly controversial comments on Italy's Fascist past.
    'My Partisan Grandmother is Still Angry' by 34-year-old street artist Laika from Rome shows an elderly woman wearing a red neckerchief chasing the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) exponent with a rolling pin.
    The mural is in the Garbatella district, one of the symbols of the Resistance in Rome.
    "This Republic was born with the blood of our partisan grandparents who fought against fascism: any attempt to rehabilitate that period is a criminal act against those who lost their lives, those who were persecuted in concentration camps, those who suffered," Laika explained.
    "History cannot be rewritten," she said.
    "Memory must be preserved, protected: it is the task of the new generations to maintain this commitment so that what has been does not happen again." La Russa drew criticism on Friday after La Repubblica newspaper quoted him as saying "the is no reference to anti-Fascism in the Italian Constitution".
    The comments, which he later said were incorrectly reported, sparked a barrage of criticism from the centre-left opposition amid calls for him to resign.
    Elly Schlein, the leader of opposition centre-left Democratic Party (PD) was among the first to hit back.
    "He said anti-Fascism isn't in the Constitution, we say that anti-Fascism is our Constitution," Schlein told a party meeting at Riano, near Rome.
    The National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI), former Constitutional Court Presidents Giovanni Maria Flick and Gustavo Zagrebelsky and numerous opposition politicians also voiced their dissent. (ANSA).