Prosecutors to open probe into Acca Larentia far-right demo

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 8 - The State attorney's office in Rome will open an investigation into a ceremony held Tuesday in the southern Rome street of Acca Larentia to mark the anniversary of the 1978 murder of two neofascist youths which was attended by over 1,000 members of far-right groups including the neo-Fascist CasaPound, judicial sources said Wednesday.
    Prosecutors are waiting for the official reports to be delivered by the Digos anti-terror police and by Carabinieri officials regarding the demonstration during which hundreds of far-right activists the made Fascist salute, the sources said.
    State attorneys will open an investigation for the alleged violation of the 1993 anti-fascist Mancino law, named after then-Interior Minister Nicola Mancino, which permits the prosecution of individuals for "incitement to violence" for a broad range of hate crimes, and of the 1952 Scelba Law against apology for Fascism and attempting to restore the Fascist party.
    On December 18 last year, the State attorney's office in Rome closed an investigation into another demonstration staged on January 7 last year by far-right militants who made Fascist salutes in which 31 people identified during the commemoration risk to be indicted for violating the Mancino and Scelba laws.
    The annual Acca Larentia ceremonies mark 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. (ANSA).