Mural of neofascist youth killed by far leftists defaced

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 9 - A mural of a neofascist youth killed by far leftists in 1975 was defaced Wednesday night, sparking bipartisan condemnation.
    The mural commemorating Sergio Ramelli was scrawled with red spray paint saying "Fascists hung upside down," a reference to the Partisan desecration of the bodies of Benito Mussolini, Fascist bigwigs, and his mistress Claretta Petacci in Milan in 1945.
    Ramelli was a 19-year-old neofascist militant who died in hospital on April 29, 1975 after being bludgeoned with a monkey wrench by eight far left militants on March 13 that year in one of the most serious acts of political street gang violence that accompanied the 'Years of Lead' of rightist and leftist terror from the late 1960 to the early 1980s.
    Ramelli, a member of the youth wing of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), was targeted by Workers Vanguard after his high-school teacher highlighted his allegedly unorthodox views of Communism.
    On the first anniversary of his death, on April 29, 1976, a 50-year-old MSI Milanese provincial chief and lawyer, Enrico Pedenovi, was murdered by members of the far left First Line group.
    Senate Speaker Ignazio La Russa, a bigwig in Premier Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, which has its roots in the MSI, called the defacement of the mural "a vile and cowardly act".
    Milan's centre-left mayor, Giuseppe Sala, said the incident was "a wound to Milan's memory". (ANSA).