Fascist salutes mark anniversary of neo-Fascist youth deaths

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 7 - Hundreds of far-right group members including the neo-Fascist CasaPound made Fascist salutes at a ceremony in the southern Rome street of Acca Larentia marking the anniversary of the 1978 murder of two neofascist youths allegedly by far-left militants and the fatal shooting, possibly by police, of a third neofascist youth.
    In the massacre on January 7, 1978, two members of nefascist party Italian Social Movement MSI's youth wing Fronte della Gioventù, Franco Bigonzetti and Francesco Ciavatta, aged 18 and 19, were shot dead, allegedly by far left militants, outside the party's Rome headquarters in the street named after a Roman goddess.
    A third MSI youth wing member, Stefano Recchioni, 19, was fatally injured by a stray bullet during ensuing clashes by members of the Fronte della Gioventù who rioted after the deaths, and police.
    The Italian right, led by Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, which has roots in the MSI, has claimed no effort was ever made to find the alleged shooters, as allegedly in a number of other cases involving far-right victims.
    FdI Deputy House Whip Fabio Rampelli repeated those claims Tuesday and called for a parliamentary commission of inquiry into terrorism.
    Centre-right post Berlusconi Forza Italia (FI) Senate Whip Maurizio Gasparri, a former MSI member, said "the inertia of the Rome prosecutors is the real disgrace on the Acca Larentia massacre", saying Skorpion machine guns traced to other leftist extremist murders had never been used to find the Acca Larentia alleged murderers.
    Neofascists attend the Acca Larentia ceremony every year, calling out "present and correct" and making the Fascist salute.
    (ANSA).