(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 2 - Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday said she was "profoundly and personally affected by the unjustified and disproportionate attacks against myself and the government on this day of commemoration" of the August 2 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station.
"Claiming that the roots of that attack today are fully represented in the ruling right", or that the justice reform approved by the government is inspired by the subversive secret Masonic lodge P2 "is very serious", said the prime minister.
"And it is dangerous, including for the personal safety of someone who, democratically elected by citizens, is only trying to do her best for the good of this nation", Meloni said in a message on the 44th anniversary of the deadly attack in which 85 people died and 200 others were wounded.
The president of the association representing the families of victims of the Bologna bombings, Paolo Bolognesi, responded to Meloni's words telling ANSA in a phone conversation that the prime minister should stop "playing the victim".
"I have seen others playing victim during the trials and then they were convicted - the victims are the 85 dead and those who died in the other massacres, which were all fascist.
"She is not a victim, but someone mocking victims", said Bolognesi. (ANSA).